According to a new report from the Better Business Bureau's Institute for Marketplace Trust, investment scams, including those involving cryptocurrency, are now the riskiest scam type. More than 80 ...

ZDNET's key takeaways Online investment scams in the US cost victims $3.5 billion.The median loss for the first half of 2025 ...

What some dismiss as a minor inconvenience has become the leading identity crime, with devastating financial and emotional ...

Spoofing scams are all too common, and they work because they take advantage of our trust. rob dobi via Getty Images Scammers win when they trick you into divulging personal information ― and one of ...

Alumni of GIJN's four Digital Threats training courses have produced a number of exposés on online scams and political ...

The Better Business Bureau released a statement alerting people of “ghost tapping”, a dangerous new scamming method. Ghost tapping takes advantage of tap-to-pay with credit cards and mobile wallets.

BEC scams are a type of crime where criminals hack into email accounts, pretend to be someone they’re not and fool victims into sending money where it doesn’t belong. These crimes get far less ...

ODESSA, Texas — A new kind of scam is currently taking place right here in West Texas. The Western District of Texas has recently published an article on their website informing residents of phone ...

Scammers win when they trick you into divulging personal information ― and one of the simplest ways they can get you to do this is by impersonating someone you know. When a bad actor pretends to be ...