BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) - As holiday festivities continue, so do efforts by scammers to exploit seasonal cheer. The Better ...

A 14-year-old committed suicide after following the advice of an artificial intelligence chatbot. Another family is suing the same one ‒ Character AI ‒ after it told an autistic 14-year-old to kill ...

The most common virtual cons were credit card fraud, online shopping scams and ransomware attacks — a type of malicious software that prevents you from accessing your computer files or system until a ...

Q. My 70-year-old female friend is a widow and was the victim of a romance scam. Could you please write about this scam so others will not be duped into thinking they had met their true love. You will ...

San Antonio -- The Better Business Bureau says Texas ranks third on the list for identity theft. And the scams are getting more creative by the day. Scammers are using some of the most popular ...

"I don't use Facebook. I don't even have an email. How could scammers possibly know anything about me?" That's the question I hear from people over 60 all the time. If you assume that by staying off ...

The scam artists and crooks running fraud rings track the headlines better than an old episode of "Law & Order." And job losses are clearly in the headlines. We've heard news of thousands of jobs ...

NATIONWDE – Online scammers stole a record $16.6 billion in 2024 — an increase of more than 30% from the previous year, the FBI said in a new report. Online scammers stole a record $16.6 billion in ...

Editor's note: The above video is from 2020. Phone scammers are impersonating Tarrant County Sheriff's Office personnel and falsely accusing people of crimes, according to a Monday, Aug. 18 news ...