Even when stolen money is found, some victims have found that getting it back can be another ordeal entirely.

From January 2025 to July 2026, the FBI received nearly 61,000 complaints regarding officer impersonation scams.

Job seekers should watch out for "ghost" AI job postings and data phishing disguised as listings.

A scam that federal investigators call pig butchering relies on one visual trick above all others: a phone screen showing an ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The scam involves criminals using tap-to-pay technology to trick victims into approving payments for much more money than they ...

Paul C. in Washington, D.C., received an alarming text claiming Apple Pay had already charged him $8,250 and another $8,250 would go through in 35 minutes. That is the kind of message designed to make ...

As AI becomes more common, bad actors are working to take advantage of the technology in order to work smarter, not harder, when it comes to stealing data and money. Companies like OpenAI, however, ...

Among the AP’s findings: —American-made AI models—chiefly ChatGPT and Gemini—have been used to build specialized software that allows scammers to seamlessly work across dozens of languages, surveil ...

A text lands on your phone offering a remote Amazon job you never applied for. The work supposedly takes about an hour a day and pays as much as $600. Sounds amazing, right? We recently received one ...

In 2024, Americans reported losing $470 million to scams that started with texts, according to the Federal Trade Commission. Text scams are also becoming harder to detect with AI. Knowing what to look ...

New research from Commonwealth Bank's Behavioural Science Centre of Excellence has found a sizeable gap between confidence and skill: nearly nine in 10 Australians believe they could identify an ...