Scams may be more prevalent than every, but you can spot them by staying cautious and avoiding handing over sensitive data.

If you’ve been scammed, it can feel impossible to navigate. Online scams result in lost funds, loss of access to important accounts or devices, damage to reputation and other harms. And with the rise ...

A tap-to-pay charity scam is turning small $15 or $20 donations into charges of nearly $5,000, with victims losing thousands ...

As scams get harder to spot, a quick tap can become a costly mistake. Use this simple checklist to help protect your money ...

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This article adheres to strict editorial standards. Some or all links may be monetized. In 2025, victims lost $3.5 billion to imposter scams (1). Now, CBS News chief correspondent Matt Gutman nearly ...

Consumers want to go directly to their financial institution to safeguard their account. You can report fraud, scams and bad business practices at ReportFraud.ftc.gov. Consider initiating a credit ...

Americans lost a shocking $3.5 billion to imposter scams in 2025, according to data from the Federal Trade Commission (1). These losses are around three times greater than in 2020. Imposter scams were ...

The instructions were clear: He had four days to make each victim fall in love. And there were a lot of victims. Online, Safeer Mohammed Koorimannil, who was trafficked to a scam center in Myanmar, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Most Americans are inundated with scam attempts on a daily basis — and about 3 in 10 have personally lost money or personal information to scams, according to a new AP-NORC survey.