Scammers are targeting people who have already lost money in cryptocurrency scams, posing as law firms and government agencies offering “fund recovery.” This is a dangerous second wave of fraud that ...

For more on law-school scamming, see the Inside the Law School Scam blog (written by an anonymous “tenured mid-career faculty member at a Tier One school”) and these two recent posts at law professor ...

Yarilet Perez is an experienced multimedia journalist and fact-checker with a Master of Science in Journalism. She has worked in multiple cities covering breaking news, politics, education, and more.

Two years ago, an elderly man lost more than $1 million to a romance scam. That sentence is easy to read and easier to dismiss. It sounds like something that happens to someone else. A cautionary tale ...

For many retirees and older adults, the threat is not just technology. It is the near-perfect mirror image of credibility. Not long ago, my grandmom (Nonna) got a phone call from someone trying to ...

The victims were led to the Arizona convenience store by an increasingly familiar scam: Crooks had tricked them into believing they were in legal trouble, their bank accounts were hacked or that they ...