Scammers stole more than $10 billion from consumers last year. Here's how to keep their hands off your hard-earned dollars.

Tricking people out of their money is a crime as old as money. When the internet became popular, enough tricksters started looking there for suckers. There’s a saying in computer security, ...

Scams involving celebrities or other famous people aren't really new - and are simply a modern take on the "Spanish Prisoner" or "Nigerian Prince" schemes ...

Romance scams, sextortion and the once popular emails from a "Nigerian prince" have been used to swindle victims in the past. The "use of AI and deepfake" will "erase the huge gains made already ...

Advance-fee scams remain lucrative to this day with 414 000 such scams detected by Kaspersky in the last year. The scam takes ...

Although this crime ring was busted, the DOJ reports there are many others, and such scams are increasing each year. Gone are the days of getting a misspelled email from a dethroned “Nigerian prince” ...

Romance scams, sextortion and the once-popular emails from a “Nigerian prince” have been used to swindle victims in the past. The “use of AI and deepfake” will “erase the huge gains made ...