Scams are getting harder to spot, but the Social Security watchdog says certain warning signs can still give them away.

If you’ve been scammed, it can feel impossible to navigate. Online scams result in lost funds, loss of access to important accounts or devices, damage to reputation and other harms. And with the rise ...

National Grandparents Day is Sept. 13, making this a good time to check in with the older adults in our lives about something that can affect anyone: scams. Scammers don't care how old you are, and ...

Follow these tips to avoid being scammed online Credit: Mashable Online scams hit us from every angle: financial fraud, phishing and fake shopping sites. But the most devastating ...

Head over heels in love with a man she met online, Helen's mother hollowed out a book and put £10,000 cash inside. She then posted it to a Shanghai Hospital where he awaited a life-saving operation.

About 73% of U.S. adults have been scammed online, according to a report from the Pew Research Center. The majority of them are contacted by scammers weekly—sometimes daily. Email scams, also known as ...

Members of the military and their families are being warned of an ongoing scam targeting them with promises of debt relief. According to the Federal Trade Commission, scammers trick the targets into ...

'I felt like I was talking to a robot,' said one adviser about a client who was ensnared in a romance scam You can put safeguards in place before aging parents get hooked by scams. Got a question ...

Call it poetic justice: one of the biggest victims of last week’s Ledger theft happened to be a scammer themself, according ...

Dear Eric: I have a 63-year-old friend who is miserable. She’s working a job she hates, doesn’t go out much and has no pension. She is always broke, her car is about to die and she’s talking about ...

"Please stop him. he's being scammed,'' said the son of a Bay Area retiree who fell for a "pig butcher" romance scam twice in one year. The victim lost $500,000 in the first scam and instantly fell ...