This time of year, parents aren’t the only ones making back to school lists. Scammers are also getting to work.

Sophisticated online fraud schemes, operating from industrial-scale scam centers in Southeast Asia, are bilking Americans out ...

As many students begin or return to college and vocational or graduate school programs, the New York Department of State’s ...

State officials are warning families to watch for fake online stores, phishing scams and deceptive AI-generated ads as they ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Older people are becoming increasingly vulnerable to scams, and the latest target appears to be inheritance tax. From April 2027, ...

Fake scholarships and too good to be true deals are targeting families. Here’s how to spot the red flags before acting ...

According to the FTC, fraud losses hit $15.9 billion in 2025. Imposter scams led in sheer number of reports, but investment scams caused the steepest financial damage. Every year, the Federal Trade ...

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 ...

A California mom says she was scammed out of thousands of dollars this month after receiving a call that sounded like her daughter in distress. She now suspects it was an artificial ...

In the past couple of years, I’ve noticed an uptick in scam emails that get past Gmail’s spam filters. Since I’m an author, the emails I get are usually from so-called book clubs, filled with empty ...