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 ...

The Family Service Agency, Community Bank of Santa Maria, and Santa Maria Police Department held a fraud awareness and ...

There was a five-year high in terms of financial losses stemming from internet-related crime, according to an annual report released Tuesday by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Newsweek ...

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 ...

The Better Business Bureau (BBB) is warning that the number of online puppy scams has risen sharply in 2020. The rise in scams comes as more families seek to adopt pets to ease the loneliness, tension ...

Federal authorities announced today that an ongoing cooperative effort between law enforcement and a number of private-sector companies, including multiple internet domain providers and registrars, ...

NEW YORK, Jan 5 (Reuters) - As millions of people await their turn to get a COVID-19 vaccine that could be months away, scammers online, in emails and on messaging apps are luring victims with claims ...

Cybercriminals and online scammers stole a record $16.6 billion last year, the FBI said Wednesday. The figure, from the FBI’s annual Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) report, is a sharp rise from ...

UC Santa Cruz police urge students to be aware of online employment scams, as authorities nationwide are seeing an uptick in student cases, especially with students studying remotely, with many ...