Bipartisan SCAM Act targets fraudulent ads on social media Bill follows Reuters report revealing that Meta internally projected huge revenue from scam ads Legislation would require platforms to verify ...

With 23% of America’s 52 billion robocalls categorized as scams, I feel like I’m gambling every time I decide to answer a call from an unknown number. And if it’s not you being taken for a “sucker,” ...

Older adults lost $2.4 billion in scams in 2024, four times higher than the $600 million lost in 2020, according to the Federal Trade Commission. Online scams, or cyber scams, are one common way that ...

PCWorld reports that cybercriminals are exploiting Microsoft Power BI’s legitimate notification feature to send convincing phishing emails from genuine Microsoft addresses. These fake payment alerts ...

There are reports that a legitimate Microsoft email address—which Microsoft explicitly says customers should add to their allow list—is delivering scam spam. According to an Ars reader, the address on ...

Apple Pay is clearly a hit with consumers. According to estimates, it had hundreds of millions of global users and processed trillions of payments in 2025 alone. But where there is money to be made, ...

ATLANTA — A Georgia sheriff’s office is warning people about a scam tied to the Verizon outage that impacted people across the country last week. The service outage happened on Wednesday, impacting ...

Chen Zhi faces an indictment in federal court in Brooklyn on charges of swindling millions of dollars from Americans as part of a global cryptocurrency scam. By Santul Nerkar A man who U.S. federal ...

Government at all levels is basically broke, especially in blue states. Government leaders’ chief solution to this poverty seems generally to involve extracting more money from the citizenry. But ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The year 2026 is almost here, and with the new year comes a new wave of scams that could potentially drain your bank account. From ...

A robocall scam is targeting hundreds of thousands of consumers each week, with fraudsters impersonating employees of Walmart in an effort to obtain people's personal information, according to a ...

Google is suing a Chinese-speaking cybercriminal group it says is responsible for a massive wave of scam text messages sent to Americans this year, according to a legal complaint filed Tuesday. The ...