Scam phone calls have been around for years, but the tactics behind them are changing fast. UK network O2 says it now blocks about 50 million suspicious calls every month, and cybersecurity ...

Financial fraud targeting older Americans has become one of the fastest-growing crime problems in the United States.

WhatsApp has taken down 6.8 million accounts that were “linked to criminal scam centers” targeting people online around the world, its parent company Meta said this week. The account deletions, which ...

When most people imagine online scams, they think of faceless texts and bot calls. But for survivors of massive scam compounds in Myanmar, the reality is much darker. Across Southeast Asia, an ...

Most of us have received a random text that makes us pause for a second. Maybe it promises a prize. Maybe it claims to be from a delivery company. Lately, another type of message is spreading quickly: ...

Just about every day, we receive emails from readers who have encountered new scams. Many involve cryptocurrency. The pattern keeps repeating. Someone receives a message that feels urgent, emotional ...