The Virginia Lottery is warning the public of scammers promoting a special international drawing for Mega Millions that is ...

In fact, 73% of U.S. adults confirm to have experienced at least one online scam or attack, and most get scam calls, texts, ...

Scam of the Week generally runs every Tuesday. Readers are welcome to contact reporter Jake Hutchison to report scams and ...

As scams become more and more prevalent in the lives of Hoosiers and Americans alike, Johnson County’s Congressman is working ...

Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook is blamed more often than any other site for hosting scam advertisements that have cost consumers ...

Older Americans continued to lose billions of dollars to fraud in 2024, with scams increasingly exploiting trust, urgency and ...

Scams are at epidemic levels. In 2023, they were “among the most common crimes affecting U.S. adults,” according to a Gallup ...

One Portuguese elderly immigrant told O Jornal his wife fell for a Facebook scam that cost them all their lifetime savings. “We lost $97,000,” said the 79-year-old New Bedford resident almost in ...

Corrections & Clarifications: A previous version of this story included data provided to USA TODAY that misstated the amount lost to scams globally last year. It was $1.026 billion. Scammers have ...

Romance scams are emotional cons disguised as love stories. Scammers build fake online relationships to manipulate people into sending money, gifts, or sensitive information. These schemes don't just ...

Scammers are becoming more sophisticated, using tactics like posing as official crypto support executives to deceive you into sharing private information or transferring funds to fraudulent wallets.