Valentine's Day romance scams in 2026 use AI personas and automated scripts to target divorced and widowed individuals ...

Scammers are impersonating Microsoft with urgent deadline threats and fake legal language to rush victims into clicking ...

Financial scams have become more convincing and common over the years, causing every phone call and email from an unknown contact to be greeted with justified suspicion. But if your small business has ...

Romance scams rely on a small number of psychological levers, applied repeatedly. Finding their victims online through ...

Fraud costs Americans billions every year.

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While scam artists target anyone and everyone they can if they believe there's a potential for a payoff, they sadly most often focus heavily on senior citizens. Why? That's because many retirees have ...

I've been anxiously expecting a package from UPS. That's why a text I received the other day caught my eye. Claiming to be from UPS, the message said that the carrier attempted to deliver the package ...

Holiday travelers are warned to watch out for fake travel sites that steal cash and personal information. The BBB warns that packages you didn't order could show up at the door as part of a new scam ...

Older adults lost $2.4 billion in scams in 2024, four times higher than the $600 million lost in 2020, according to the Federal Trade Commission. Online scams, or cyber scams, are one common way ...