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Financial scams on the rise, Pittsburgh police warn
WPXI via Yahoo Finance· 5 hours agoFinancial scams are on the rise. In the latest scam, police tell Channel 11 a business owner in the city was contacted by someone claiming to be from...
Woman scammed out of nearly $30K in phone scam where caller impersonated officer
WPXI via Yahoo News· 22 hours ago“We don’t do any transactions over the phone, we don’t arrest people over the phone, we don’t...
16 charged in international ‘grandparent scam’ run in the Dominican Republic
United Press International via Yahoo News· 2 days agoThe Department of Justice has charged 16 for their alleged roles in a "grandparent scam" that the...
Better Call Behnken: Don’t be fooled by fake jury summons scheme
WFLA via Yahoo News· 15 hours agoIf you get a phone call about jury duty, chances are it's a scam and criminals are making a lot of...
Houston cryptocurrency scam cases rising as more rush to invest, FBI says
ABC13 Houston· 17 hours agoA sophisticated and somewhat complicated scam has the phones at the FBI ringing off the hook. When...
My mom received a code before $15k vanished - the bank's response baffled me
The US Sun· 3 hours agoA DAUGHTER said $15,000 was fraudulently taken out of her elderly mother’s bank account. Laurie...
Gone Phishing – Vigilance in the New Scam Era
The National Law Review· 22 hours agoAccording to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), scammers are increasingly utilizing email and text messaging, rather than phone calls, to initiate the ...
Elderly Hoosiers reported $26 million in financial losses due to fraud and scams in 2023
IndyStar | The Indianapolis Star via Yahoo Finance· 1 day agoFraudsters pose as a tech or customer support representatives from legitimate companies, financial institutions or federal agencies to gain access to bank accounts or coerce victims to initiate ...
Baby boomers are losing their life savings to phone scammers claiming to provide tech support,...
Fortune· 2 days agoLosses from scams reported by Americans over the age of 60 last year were up 11% over the year before, according to the FBI’s report. Investigators are warning of a rise in brazen schemes to ...
No, you did not just get a real text to pay unpaid tolls. It's a scam.
Detroit Free Press via Yahoo News· 2 days agoThe Ohio Turnpike and Infrastructure Commission warns that the text message scam fraudulently claims...