The Wisconsin Department of Revenue received reports from Wisconsin taxpayers about a text message requesting personal and banking information.

Americans receive fraudulent or scam messages twice as much as other countries, according to new research. A poll of 10,500 adults from around the world found that the average American navigates an ...

Mamello Thinyane receives funding from Optus and CSIRO. In 2024, more than A$2.03 billion was lost to scams in Australia across 494,732 reported cases. Most of these scams were enabled by technology, ...

About a month ago, I received a scam email that almost tricked me. It purported to be from PayPal, alerting me to an almost $1,000 charge that was “logged to a new profile.” The message implied that ...

*** new scam is sweeping the country. The Better Business Bureau says it's received more than 800 reports in less than 2 months. Here's *** real message one person received. Hey, it's Dan from My ...

Advanced phishing attacks now target crypto wallets and exchange accounts using sophisticated tactics that exploit user trust to steal private keys or login credentials. To carry out advanced phishing ...

As Congress faces another budget stalemate, consumer watchdogs are warning Americans to be on guard for scams exploiting fears over the potential government shutdown. State attorneys general and ...

A court in China has sentenced 11 people to death for their roles in a billion-dollar family-run criminal empire built on online scam and gambling operations in a remote border region of Myanmar, and ...

Lana Swartz, a media studies professor in the University of Virginia’s College of Arts & Sciences, studies the intersection of AI and fraud, and how you can protect yourself. She recently chatted with ...

Two new schemes are targeting people around the Carolinas. Juliana O'Rork with the Better Business Bureau shares a warning about the "ghost tapping" scam. Mike Johnson Shifts Tone On Health Care As ...

Regulators ramp up pressure on Big Tech over fraud. You either go to the woods and raise your kids in the wild, just like Captain Fantastic did for a while, completely disconnected from the world. Or ...

An Apex man accused of financial exploitation involving a computer scam in Lee County appeared in court for the first time on Friday. Avinash Chandreshbhai Patel, 19, was arrested on Sept. 25, during ...