298 articles on scam awareness, fraud prevention, and consumer protection.
F-Secure's 2025 Scam Intelligence & Impacts Report — released today — reveals that scam losses in the United States doubled year-over-year, nearly 40 ...
Nearly six years after COVID-19 relief programs flooded the unemployment system with emergency cash, federal prosecutors are still convicting fraudste...
The Department of Justice launched a new West Coast Health Care Fraud Strike Force on April 30, 2026, uniting federal prosecutors and investigators ac...
On April 28, 2026, federal law enforcement executed 22 search warrants across the Minneapolis area, targeting daycares, businesses, and private homes ...
The FTC's May 2026 consumer alert reveals imposter scams are the number one fraud complaint for the ninth straight year, with losses hitting $3.5 bill...
Subscription traps have found a powerful new disguise: free AI tools. In 2026, a surge of apps and websites lure consumers with promises of no-cost AI...
Microsoft analyzed 8.3 billion phishing threats in just three months and found QR code phishing — known as quishing — surged 146% in Q1 2026, with att...
A Florida jury just convicted Brett Blackman, the founder of healthcare software company HealthSplash, for orchestrating a 'cold, calculated' $1 billi...
After losing money to a scammer, the last thing anyone expects is to be scammed again by someone offering to get the money back. But recovery scams ar...
Criminals no longer need to actually crash their cars to file insurance claims — they just need a smartphone and a generative AI tool. AI-fabricated a...
On April 7, 2026, the Department of Justice stood up an entirely new division with one mandate: hunt down fraud. The National Fraud Enforcement Divisi...
Synthetic identity fraud is unlike any scam you've encountered before — there's no immediate victim to notice it, no alert from a stolen credit card, ...