Fake Check Scams Someone sends you a check or money order, which you are asked to deposit in your account and wire-transfer the sender a portion of the money, minus a nice bonus for you as a “thank ...

Brian Oliver of Gainesville, Florida, lost $210,000 to scammers who used a fake PayPal email and mirrored bank site to trick ...

A Washington retiree swindled out of her life savings now faces a second blow: the federal government is making her pay for ...

Macworld reports on a sophisticated phishing scam where attackers use legitimate Apple servers to send convincing fake emails ...

A dangerous phishing email disguised as a Social Security Administration notice tricks users into downloading malware. Here ...

AI is increasingly used for sophisticated fraud and can make errors, especially with taxes. Here's how to protect your ...

Elon Musk, who split from OpenAI years after cofounding it as a nonprofit in 2015, said it was putting commercial interests ...

Starting this week, students may encounter a new identity-verification step while filing out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid as the Trump administration continues to prioritize cracking ...

Psychologists and fraud experts explain exactly what happened to my critical thinking skills, highlighting why even smart, ...

Meet our experts: Daniel Simons, Ph.D, a professor of psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and ...

The ATMs are an easy way to buy and sell crypto, but scammers have found there's also a way to take thousands from ...

Two former Cincinnati high school football players are going to prison for their roles in a $6.8 million pandemic fraud case.