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Elderly woman who robbed bank at gunpoint was scam victim, say family
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 6 days agoA 74-year-old woman who has been charged with carrying out an armed robbery in an Ohio credit union...
The people behind online scams may be scam victims themselves
WLRN Miami· 1 day agoThe people behind the online scams you see might be the victim of a scam themselves. Tens of thousands of people have been trafficked into remote, Southeast ...
‘Report this crime’: Sextortion cases on the rise in Northeast Ohio
WJW via Yahoo News· 7 hours agoThe scam, known as sextortion, is ruining lives. “The predators are still out there,” said...
China has a 'fake gold' problem — locals are getting scammed into buying artificial jewelry
CNBC· 1 hour agoThousands of people in China have been duped into forking out money on "fake gold" — inferior or...
INVESTIGATES: ‘I was vulnerable’ Artificial intelligence work-from-home job scams targeting victims
WJAX via Yahoo News· 4 hours agoAction News Jax Investigates how work-from-home job scams have grown by more than 500 percent thanks...
BBB warns of scams for those buying vehicles online
WJXT Jacksonville· 2 days agoThe number of online vehicle vendor scam reports dipped from 239 in 2021 to 201 in 2022 but then rose again to 256 in 2023. Buyers aged 45 and above accounted ...
FBI to Online Daters: Watch Out for Verification Scams
PC Magazine· 2 days agoThe FBI is warning users of online dating services to be on guard against a new romance scam that...
No, you did not just get a real text to pay unpaid tolls. It's a scam.
Detroit Free Press via Yahoo News· 3 days ago"We believe the scammers must have sent out numerous texts all at once...implied to be from the...
Indian enforcement agency collaborates with Binance to bust scam app
The Cointelegraph· 17 hours agoThe Enforcement Directorate (ED) — an Indian law enforcement agency — seized 90 crores ($10.5 million) from an online scam app called E-Nuggets with the ...
Romance scams just ‘happen in life,' says CEO of biggest dating app company in the US
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 3 days agoIn fact, some studies show younger internet users are more likely to fall for online fraud than...