FBI indicts Damon Jones in NBA betting probe; insider tips linked to LeBron James and Lakers amid Mafia-backed poker games.

What started with a pop-up on a computer ended with a retired couple in South Carolina handing over their entire life savings in gold to a scammer. Michael and Roxanne Chrisman thought they were protecting their money.

Feds charge NBA players and coach Chauncey Billups in a Mafia-backed gambling scam that rigged underground poker games across 11 states.

Data from the FBI shows a new way of scamming people is exploding across the country. The common denominator in the scams is a cryptocurrency ATM. You might not have heard of them, but the small kiosks are becoming increasingly more common in the Kansas City metro.

A multi-phase scam that targets Americans' bank accounts has cost victims more than $1 billion since last year, according to the FBI.

From 2023 to 2025, FBI Boston identified 103 instances across New England where a courier was used to pick up cash or gold bars, resulting in more than $26 million in losses.

Authorities have identified at least four ‘gold bar scam’ cases in which Oregon victims lost tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars.

You can avoid them by researching carefully, watching for red flags, or simply steering clear of crypto investments to protect your funds.

The ads look real and the apartments are enticing, but often the exciting videos would-be-renters find on social media are for deals that are in fact too good to be true. The scam: to lure renters in and get them to pay up front fees for access to apartments they’ll never really see.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) is throwing a curveball into the shutdown fight as he plans to bring a full-year spending bill for the Pentagon to the floor on Thursday, effectively daring Democrats to oppose it as part of their push to keep health care at the forefront of the impasse. Democrats have been…