The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children says it receives almost 100 reports of financial sextortion a day.

Social media is full of scammers promising guaranteed returns on investment, and consumers lost billions of dollars to them last year. Troy Gochenour, 50, of Columbus, Ohio, was conned out of $25,800, ...

A new report found that romance scams targeting older Americans have increased significantly during the COVID-19 pandemic, with adults aged 60 and higher losing about $139 million in 2020 -- the ...

Beware of social media profiles with few photos and never send money or gifts without meeting someone first. Those two seemingly simple tips could potentially save an unwitting man or woman looking ...

SAN DIEGO, Calif. (FOX 5/KUSI) — A major international fraud ring that stole more than $65 million from thousands of elderly Americans—including a 97-year-old San Diego woman— has been dismantled with ...

You've seen it with mobile ordering at restaurants and the rise of online banking — but now the ancient, time-honored tradition of scamming people out of their money has become a lucrative internet ...

While financial scams have always been around, the variety of schemes that scammers employ to steal money are easily proliferated these days with the internet, social media, AI and crypto. Frauds and ...

Credit: Ian Moore / Mashable Composite; Bill Hinton / Moment / Galina Chetvertina / J Studios / DigitalVision / loops7 / E+ / jittawit.21 / iStock / Getty A call from someone pretending to be an IRS ...

Financial scammers often target seniors, thinking that seniors are not of sound mind and that they have plenty of money in the bank. Scams and financial abuse targeting older adults are vastly ...

Johari or Joe, is an Anti Money Laundering Analyst at an international bank in Kuala Lumpur. His job is to monitor and report money laundering activities among bank account holders where he works.

As the crypto scam commonly known as “pig butchering” has exploded into a full-blown criminal industry that steals tens of billions of dollars a year, an entire ecosystem has formed around it. That ...

From fake NHS Covid tests to QR code parking scams, Which? has exposed hundreds of scams to help you stay one step ahead of the scammers…. In response to this worrying trend, Which? launched a free ...