The Federal Trade Commission is offering a new ‘How I’ll Avoid a Scam: My Action Plan’ tool to help individuals and families ...

“Message scam losses are on the rise,” is the headline in a recent edition of the AARP Bulletin. To be sure, in every single AARP publication as well as in Consumer Reports and other magazines, there ...

It feels awful to be scammed. Unnerving to have a person's voice suddenly yelling at you right out of your computer. And you can't make it stop. "You've been hacked!" "You have pornographic material ...

BLUFFTON, S.C. (WTOC) - Scams are on the rise in Beaufort County, and a lot of them are targeting the elderly. Federal officials say one out of every 10 adults over 60 will fall victim to some form of ...

Google is going to court to help put an end to, or at least limit, the prevalence of phishing scams over text message. Scam texts have been a nuisance for a long time, but they've become increasingly ...

Phone scams aren’t the only threat anymore — scam text messages (also called “smishing”) are exploding in frequency and in financial damage. According to recent FTC data, Americans lost over $470 ...