Have you ever wired money to an overseas bank account simply because you received an email asking you to do so? Probably not, but there are plenty of people who have done just that, and they have paid ...

Law enforcement agencies categorize the e-mails as Nigerian 419 scams. Most of them originate in that West African nation. They used to come through the mail, then by fax machine, and with the ...

Nigerian email scams have become nearly as commonplace as the Internet itself. But one Australian woman wound up in jail after turning the tables--to the tune of $30,000--on a group of con artists.

When Dean Cameron got an e-mail from a Nigerian con artist, the actor didn't immediately trash the forwarded scam letter. Instead, Cameron turned the tables on the con man, wrote him back and turned ...

Today, for free, a scammer can run a text draft through artificial intelligence and clean it up so well that a high school grammar teacher would be proud. MICHAEL MULVEY / 173789 Reader R.V. Baugus of ...

The glittering success stories you see are built over a treacherous foundation of six deadly, targeted scams. Forget old-school 419. These new scams are sophisticated, digital, and often deployed by ...