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 ...

Most Americans are inundated with scam attempts on a daily basis — and about 3 in 10 have personally lost money or personal ...

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, ...

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 ...

OPPORTUNITIES FOR SCAMMERS TO TARGET YOU. SO AFTER WE WRAPPED UP THE TOP SCAMS OF 2025 LAST WEEK ON YOUR SIDE, CONSUMER INVESTIGATOR BRIAN ROCHE SHOWS US THE TOP SCAMS YOU SHOULD LOOK OUT FOR IN 2026.

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 ...

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.

As if avoiding spam emails and phishing texts wasn't bad enough, scammers have a new tool to help separate you from your money: AI. So those giant, polluting, utility-bill-increasing data centers ...

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 ...

BREVARD COUNTY, Fla — A bizarre scam involving what could be a fake website is hurting customers and making a central Florida business look bad. At least two people lost more than $20,000 in this scam ...