G. Love lost $430,000 in crypto to a scam app on the Apple App Store. His story is a warning — and a window into a growing ...

FTC data shows consumers lost $2.1 billion to social media scams in 2025, with Facebook driving the highest reported losses and investment, shopping, and romance scams leading the damage.

Food fraud used to hide in supply chains. Now it moves through TikTok Shop and Instagram ads, and a $30 million gum brand's ...

If you've gotten a text about unpaid tolls or tickets pretending to be from E-ZPass, FasTrak, or another agency, it's almost ...

A new report found hundreds of thousands of scam ads for medical products, some of which were illegal or had been deemed ...

A buyer lost $77,300 to a fake Lexus deal as scammers clone dealership sites using AI. Here’s how the scam works and how to ...

Six immigrants in five states describe losing between $1,300 and $11,000 to people who impersonated law firms or staged fake ...

This week, a class-action lawsuit was filed in Washington, D.C. against Meta, alleging that the company deceived Facebook ...

Scammers are impersonating famous authors, publishers and even USA TODAY. Here's how to stay safe amid a new wave of ...

An arrest affidavit says an Austin resident lost $1.4 million after months of fake crypto investment pitches and cash pickups ...

Chinese nationals are arrested during a police raid on suspicion of running an online love scam syndicate that ensnared hundreds of victims, in Indonesia's Riau Islands province. Chinese nationals are ...

Scammers are sending fake “Apple Pay fraud alerts” to trick victims into calling criminals. Victims are pressured into moving money quickly — often thousands of dollars — under false pretenses.