Alabama ranks tenth nationally for sweepstakes and lottery scams, according to a Vegas Insider study of Federal Trade Commission data. Between 2020 and 2025, Alabamians lost approximately $18.9 ...

FILE - (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File) (Charles Krupa, Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.) SAN ANTONIO – Cryptocurrency scams are booming, and ...

Since 2020, there has been a fourfold increase in over-60s losing at least $100,000 to scams involving impersonations of ...

An impersonation scam, or imposter scam, is when a criminal pretends to be someone they aren't to get access to your money or financial information. A new report from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC ...

Wallets tied to Chen Zhi, who was charged last week by the U.S. government over an alleged $14 billion crypto scam, moved ...

Dear Savvy Senior: Can you offer some tips to help seniors guard against census scams? With the 2020 census gearing up, I’ve read that there are a lot of potential scammers out there looking to take ...

Fresno Unified's payments to Davis Moreno Construction were fraudulently obtained and deposited — where a chunk of money ...

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 ...

The highest numbers of scams were in California, Florida and Texas. Senior citizens lost almost $1 billion in scams in 2020, according to an FBI report released this week. A total of 105,301 people ...

Investment scams have conned almost 100,000 people into handing over £2.6bn to fraudsters since 2020, new research by the Pensions Management Institute (PMI) has found. Between January 2020 and ...

2020 was a lot of things, including a banner year for online scam artists. The Federal Trade Commission says Americans were scammed out of $304 million in 2020, a 50% increase from 2019. Tom Ernsting ...