From 2020 to 2024, the 60-plus age group's reported losses have jumped 300% to $2.4 billion from $600 million, according to ...

The Federal Trade Commission is urging everyone to be prepared with a simple plan that can stop a scam before it starts.

The report highlights a dramatic increase in the number of older adults reporting losses of over $100,000 to scams Today, the Federal Trade Commission issued its annual report to Congress on ...

Tuesday the Federal Trade Commission announced it is cracking down on illegal telemarketers in one of the biggest multi-agency sweeps ever. The FTC is partnering with 101 law enforcement agencies, ...

HERE’S CONSUMER INVESTIGATOR BRIAN ROCHE. SO SCAMMERS WILL TRY TO TELL YOU JUST ABOUT ANYTHING TO GET YOU TO PANIC AND ACT QUICKLY. NOW, THE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION HAS PUT OUT A NEW TOOL CALLED MY ...

Another scam that’s surging right now is where real people post up outside military-focused banks and credit unions like USAA ...

WASHINGTON -- Love is blind -- and scammers are taking advantage of that. Americans lost more than $201 million to romance scams in 2019, up 40% from 2018, according to a new Federal Trade Commission ...

Scam artists are using the Supreme Court’s recent Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ruling as leverage to collection personal information from consumers, according to a Federal Trade ...

WASHINGTON - In the last few weeks, Barbara Jewell-Potter has received several messages, claiming to be from healthcare.gov.