The CFPB ordered Block to update its business practices to comply with the law, pay between $75 and $120 million to users ...

If you lost money to scammers or had your account frozen on a popular peer-to-peer payment platform, you might be due for a ...

Now, the government is racing to close loopholes in outdated laws, looking to Singapore’s hard-hitting anti-scam measures as a lifeline. A proposal to tighten regulations on telecommunications ...

I also report on online scams and offer advice to families and individuals about staying safe on the internet. Before joining PCMag, I wrote about tech and video games for CNN, Fanbyte ...

We are all vulnerable to the rapid spread of phone scams – including, it seems, world leaders. Thailand’s prime minister has revealed she got a call from an AI system, demanding money in the ...

Homeowners across the U.S. are being targeted in a sophisticated scam in which callers pose as mortgage lenders to defraud people out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, the Federal ...

Thousands of online GoFundMe fundraising campaigns have been created to support the victims of the devastating wildfires that have scorched portions of Los Angeles County, but officials are ...

QUINCY – My turn to receive the latest fraudulent "smishing" scam arrived at 9:27 a.m. Sunday when a text message appeared on my iPhone. It told me that I owed money for unpaid tolls on state ...

Beware: texts are part of the latest “smishing” scam, according to the Massachusetts Department of Transportation. The texts say that the recipient owes money for EZ pass tolls and include a ...

Individuals may also be susceptible to GoFundMe scams. The online fundraising company recommends donors and recipients look for the following: ...