PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) — Since the COVID-19 pandemic, fraud and identity theft has cost consumers billions of dollars, topping 12 billion in 2024. According to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) , ...

WalletHub ranked Florida as the most vulnerable state to identity theft and fraud due to weak protections and high complaint rates. Florida logged 528 identity-theft complaints and 2,163 fraud ...

A Georgia man will spend nearly three years behind bars for his role in a sophisticated identity theft and bank fraud ring that stretched from Georgia to Western New York. Lorenzo Jones, 38, was ...

A Washington woman accuses the Department of Licensing of a security flaw that led to years of identity theft issues. A tort claim has been filed against the DOL.

A Vance woman is accused of charging more than $10 million in personal expenses at the company where she worked for nearly 24 years.

Identity theft is one of the most annoying crimes a person can commit. It completely turns the victim's life on its head and ...

It started with a voicemail from a Hertz rental car location in Miami, Florida. A 57-year-old woman in Los Alamitos, California, was asked when she planned to return a Mercedes-Benz she had never ...

The Oregon Department of Revenue stopped nearly $2 billion in tax refund fraud over the past five years, Governor Tina Kotek said Tuesday. In 2024 alone, partly as a result of the outsized kicker that ...

The report shows that 24 percent of identity verification attempts in East Africa were rejected for suspected fraud in 2025. Most of the region’s identity verification traffic w ...