The AARP runs ads claiming that any request to pay by gift card is always a scam. Patrick McKenzie, writing at Bits About Money, points out this is technically false - gift cards are a legitimate ...

Derek Barden fell victim to a phishing scam after someone pretended to be from his bank and claimed his account had ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Here's a Quick "double scam" tip. The Better Business Bureau has a new warning about scammers now targeting people who've already been scammed, promising to get their money back ...

Scammers are getting smarter in their efforts to get your personal information. Between the phone calls, emails and even text messages, you need to remain on guard because you could be caught in a ...

Free money from Zelle or Cash App—just for filling out a government form? That’s what some TikTok videos claim. But Consumer Reports has a warning: it’s not a windfall—it’s simply not true.Victims of ...

According to the FBI, gold bar and illicit cash scams are on the rise. In a period between 2023 and May 2025, the FBI Boston ...

Americans in 2024 lost nearly $250 million to scams that used Bitcoin ATMs In June 2024, when Fran Bates entered a Fort Worth-area gas station, she thought the voice on the other end of the phone was ...

The victims were led to the Arizona convenience store by an increasingly familiar scam: Crooks had tricked them into believing they were in legal trouble, their bank accounts were hacked or that they ...

MISSOURI. KANSAS CITY’S NEWS LEADER KMBC NINE NEWS. YOU MIGHT HAVE FAMILY IN TOWN RIGHT NOW FOR THANKSGIVING, SO STOP AND TALK TO THEM ABOUT THIS SCAM. IT PREYS ON ELDERLY PEOPLE AND BY GETTING THEM ...

Scammers are impersonating executives and pressuring employees to act fast. Here's how the scam works and how to stop it.

The voice belonged to a scammer, and experts believe the call was likely made from overseas. The machine was a bitcoin ATM kiosk-- one of more than 45,000 across the country. And on that summer day in ...