A phone call telling you to return a new phone may be a scam. The scammer simply keeps your phone instead of replacing it. Hang up on such calls and contact the carrier directly. The next time you ...

Even as fraud has become increasingly sophisticated amid the rise of e-commerce and online banking, many victims still fall prey to old-school phone scams. Phone scams come in many forms, ranging from ...

This is how scammers are using AI to scam you better. So I cover scams in consumer news, and I just went through the FBI's latest internet crime report, and for the first time ever, it includes AI. In ...

Thousands of people are bilked every year by criminals who enter the lives of their victims through their telephones. AARP once found that about half of all mobile calls were fraudulent, and that the ...

You pick up a call from a number you don’t recognize. The voice on the other end sounds a little garbled, a little uncertain. “Hello?” it says. “Can you hear me?” Your brain has already started ...

Scam alert note on a telephone receiver on a desk, warning of potential fraud. Recently the FBI led a successful joint investigation with the Montgomery Maryland Police Department and the Montgomery ...