While way more sophisticated than emails from a wealthy Nigerian prince, this smishing text was just the latest in an ...

Key takeaways Scammers are increasingly using text messages for fraud (smishing): As technology has evolved, so have scams — moving from phone cal ...

A Prince George’s County ... months after pleading guilty to commit mail and bank fraud as well as aggravated identity theft. She, along with four other coconspirators, stole more than 700 ...

A Nigerian man defrauded a Brazilian bank of $242 million and sold a fake airport, one of the largest financial frauds of the ...

Criminals are increasingly using generative AI to mimic voices of real people and scam their loved ones out of money. Last week, I chronicled the harrowing ordeal of Linda Roan, a Colorado woman ...

With little hope for prosecution or bank reimbursement, what recourse do victims of impostor scams have? We must start by cleaning up the internet as we would our streets. Tech-support scams ...

By Emily Badger Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency announced this week that they had found something especially startling in their government-wide hunt for fraud: tens of ...

I’ve gathered some other ways you can protect yourself from these phone-related “impostor" scams—both in advance and in the moment. Some tips are from cybersecurity experts, and others came ...

The truth is that there are always fraud cases under investigation. Musk hasn’t discovered anything new. The Social Security Administration has a robust set of systems in place to detect ...

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