In 2023, more than one million vehicles were stolen in the U.S., and selling stolen cars through the VIN swap scam has become ...

Be careful when someone contacts you claiming to be from the IRS and offering to help you. It's probably a scam.

On Dec. 16 a resident filed a fraud report at the police station. The resident fell for an online dating scam, where he sent ...

Authorities in Van Buren County are warning of scams after a suspect allegedly collected $15,000 from a victim, claiming that ...

Scammers are leveraging increasingly sophisticated AI technology to create convincing emails, text messages, and AI-generated deepfake videos. A recent McAfee survey found nearly two-thirds (59%) of ...

In a bizarre and alarming scam, a gang in Bihar has been duping young men by offering them lucrative payments to impregnate "helpless" women. The scheme, however, turned out to be a web of lies, ...

Virginia State Police have warned of possible scam calls in our region, particularly in the Staunton and Radford areas.

These job-scam texts, nonexistent a few years ago, saw a “sharp spike” in the past year, the FTC says. The scam begins with a ...

Michigan Attorney General warns of parking scams at the Detroit Auto Show and offers tips to avoid being duped, such as ...

Tulare police arrest suspect in elaborate scam targeting elderly man. Learn how the victim lost $130,000 and how the scam was ...

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Massachusetts officials are warning people about smishing, a scam that attempts to phish people's sensitive information through texts.