An 84-year-old Washington resident handed about $420,000 in gold to a man waiting at the end of the resident’s driveway after ...

A San Diego contractor says a fake federal-agent call drained $4,000 from him in minutes after he was pushed into buying Lowe ...

American-made AI models—chiefly ChatGPT and Gemini—have been used to build specialized software that allows scammers to ...

A Texas man faces up to 20 years in federal prison after admitting he helped launder more than $1.2 million extracted from elderly victims through an international computer-support scam. Chase Harris, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image Credit: Shutterstock. A fake computer alert can be the first move in a scam that ends with someone moving their own ...

While fraud is nothing new, today's scams are constantly evolving. The latest advances in technology, like artificial intelligence (AI), make these schemes even harder to spot. The Federal Trade ...

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warned that criminals are using couriers to collect money from victims of cryptocurrency investment scams, also known as pig butchering or romance ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A California man accused of a multi-state computer scam was arrested in Mesa County after authorities say he took money from a ...

A California man accused of a multi-state computer scam was arrested in Mesa County after authorities say he took money from a victim in Grand Junction. Live updates: Trump called FIFA chief over USA ...

In 2024, Americans reported losing $470 million to scams that started with texts, according to the Federal Trade Commission. Text scams are also becoming harder to detect with AI. Knowing what to look ...

Pennsylvania State Police are warning residents about a computer scam that tricks victims into sending bitcoin or other cryptocurrency to scammers posing as Microsoft support personnel. Most recently, ...

Waynesboro, PA (JK) – The Waynesboro Police Department is warning the public to be cautious after recently investigating two similar computer refund scams involving local residents. One case resulted ...