It can start with a phone call that sounds like a loved one, or maybe it's an email that looks like it's from your bank.

Hackers have infiltrated the systems of a software company, potentially compromising the personal data of hundreds of ...

About a month ago, I received a scam email that almost tricked me. It purported to be from PayPal, alerting me to an almost $1,000 charge that was “logged to a new profile.” The message implied that ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - With the holiday shopping season upon us, retailers like Amazon hope to entice people with its fall shopping event: Big Deal Days. The company is encouraging people to mark ...

Identity theft is as pervasive as ever. The Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) Fraud and ID Theft Maps shows 748,555 reports of ID theft in the first half of 2025 — that’s nearly 200,000 more reports ...

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ALBANY — New Yorkers don’t have to do anything special to get their inflation refund checks, and the state government is warning people to ignore outreach that says otherwise. Part of this year’s ...

Americans receive fraudulent or scam messages twice as much as other countries, according to new research. A poll of 10,500 adults from around the world found that the average American navigates an ...

Lana Swartz, a media studies professor in the University of Virginia’s College of Arts & Sciences, studies the intersection of AI and fraud, and how you can protect yourself. She recently chatted with ...

A Newton psychologist has agreed to plead guilty to allegedly defrauding his psychotherapy patient and one of his own relatives, federal prosecutors said Friday. Eric Brown, 76, has agreed to plead ...

Phishing is a major and growing threat to businesses. But phishing awareness training has a minimal success rate. Researchers urge organizations to invest in countermeasures. A new study has confirmed ...

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