It feels awful to be scammed. Unnerving to have a person's voice suddenly yelling at you right out of your computer. And you can't make it stop. "You've been hacked!" "You have pornographic material ...

Cybersecurity risks are evolving, in part because bad actors – including scammers and fraudsters – are leveraging widely available artificial intelligence (AI) tools for nefarious purposes. In the ...

Consumers are losing an estimated $158 billion a year to fraud, with about 57,000 new victims each day, a new report warns. The National Task Force on Fraud and Scam Prevention calls for a coordinated ...

The growing risk to consumers posed by scams begs the need for a government-wide strategy to counter scams, track them accurately and agree on what defines a scam, a new study said. The cost of this ...

The Better Business Bureau has released fraud prevention tips for 2026 after tracking the year’s riskiest scams that cost ...

Google Messages has rolled out two new security tools to prevent scam links One of those is the new Key Verifier tool, which the company first unveiled in May Google Messages also has a new scam alert ...

SANDY — The romance scam struck Rita at the worst time possible. With many personal issues going on in her life and a panging sense of loneliness, she needed a connection more than ever. When someone ...