Most people think of financial fraud showing up as a large, unusual charge on their bank account, but it's the little ...

When you’re being gaslit by a scammer, it doesn’t play out like a docuseries. There’s no ominous score or dramatic reveal, but instead, a slow descent into confusion. It begins with love-bombing ...

There's no way around it, Americans are inundated every day with nuisance and scam calls: about 50 billion of them per year, according to call-blocking app YouMail (the Federal Communications ...

Scams on the Internet are big business. Consumers reportedly lose more than $10 billion annually to them, and every year there is a new wave of scams to bilk people out of their hard-earned money. You ...

Those wanting to steer clear of scams should also avoid clicking on unknown links or attachments, shouldn't keep documents ...

CHARLOTTE — Action 9 picked up on a new phishing scam. It’s like the money app ones Jason Stoogenke always warns you about, the ones where scammers pretend to be with your bank’s fraud department and ...

Today, for free, a scammer can run a text draft through artificial intelligence and clean it up so well that a high school grammar teacher would be proud. MICHAEL MULVEY / 173789 Reader R.V. Baugus of ...

This as-told-to essay is based on conversations with Adam Pretorius, who's been a real estate agent in Iowa since 2009. Pretorius was targeted as part of a vacant land scam in which scammers ...

Adam Pretorius, a real estate agent in Iowa, was nearly scammed into selling a $200,000 lot. Pretorius said fewer safeguards are in place to protect vacant lots. He's trying to spread awareness and ...