Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A bizarre scam involving what could be a fake website is hurting customers and making a central Florida business look bad. At ...

A suspicious username, often similar to a real username (like “contact12” for a scammer impersonating a company’s customer ...

Americans receive fraudulent or scam messages twice as much as other countries, according to new research. A poll of 10,500 adults from around the world found that the average American navigates an ...

Tap-to-pay, seemingly, has become commonplace overnight. It seems obvious why — it certainly beats swiping your credit card over and over, as the line queued behind you grows longer and longer. It's ...

More than seven million Britons fell victim to a scam in the past 12 months, research reveals. A further seven million adults said they know someone else who has been scammed in the past year, ...

We tend to assume scam victims simply "believed the unbelievable." However, my research published in Social Epistemology suggests something more subtle: Many people don't fully believe the story.

Conmen and swindlers have always existed (shoutout to Leo DiCaprio playing Frank Abagnale, Jr.) but thanks to technology, it’s never been easier for scammers to find victims. And in 2024, it ...

Older people are becoming increasingly vulnerable to scams, and the latest target appears to be inheritance tax. From April 2027, pensions are to be used in inheritance calculations, but criminals are ...

Google is suing 25 people it alleges are behind a “relentless” scam text operation that uses a phishing-as-a-service platform called Lighthouse. Now, in one of the most high-profile actions against ...

Not all scams are created equally, and the ones people are most likely to fall for these days definitely feel different from those a few years ago, as comedian Jordan Davis and others discussed on ...