More than 100 scam fighters from around the world gathered in London for one mission: shut down as many scam operations as ...

A scammer thought he had found another person to scare with a fake warrant story. Instead, the call went to a police captain.

FBI reports over $20 billion in internet crime losses. Learn how scammers coach victims before bank visits and what families ...

A scammer pretending to be PayPal support thought he had pulled off the perfect crime. After convincing a victim to send a ...

Pierogi from Scammer Payback on YouTube joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about scams and scambaiting. Why do scammers ask victims to buy gift cards? What are some of the biggest ...

The Federal Trade Commission received more than 330,000 reports of scammers impersonating businesses in 2023. Some of these scammers pretend to be major corporations like Amazon or Best Buy, the FTC ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Investigators said a scammer pretending to be actor Tom Selleck had defrauded an elderly couple in Riverside County who was later ...

A Pennsylvania woman lost nearly $500 to a scammer promising to send her $15.9 million. Pennsylvania State Police in Hamburg ...

A Charlotte woman lost thousands of dollars after receiving a call from a scammer masquerading as a representative of her ...

The scammer asked the woman to withdraw $56,520 from her bank account and tell bank employees that it was for home remodeling ...

Dear Miss Manners: A while ago, I went through a traumatic experience in my life and was very depressed. I read online about a celebrity who was going through the same experience. Through different ...