The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently issued its "Top Scams of 2024" update, and the results aren't promising. Consumers lost about $1.9 billion to fraud through phone calls, texts or emails ...

This year, we will see 40 billion robo calls made in the United States and many are spoofing calls that cost people money. criminals thru caller ID block out the location of where they're calling from ...

RESTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--New research commissioned by Transaction Network Services (TNS) has found that contact center decision makers are under pressure to address growing spam, fraud and call ...

Most people know to hang up on con artists supposedly calling from the power company or the IRS, demanding money. The problem is, there's little the police can do — even when the scammers go so far as ...

Black Americans across the United States received racist text messages Wednesday and Thursday telling them they were selected to be enslaved and sent to work on a cotton plantation, The Columbus ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - The Honolulu Police Department is warning the public about a recent rise in reports of a sneaky phone scam tactic. Caller ID spoofing is a type of scam where fraudsters mask ...

You probably know by now not to pick up or respond to the barrage of communication from numbers you don't recognize—this gets easier as smartphones roll out more robust scam detection and spam ...

PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh Police say people in the area are receiving calls from their stations but say their officers are not the ones dialing them. Officers issued an alert about a possible “spoofing” ...