Scam texts offering lucrative jobs are everywhere, and Gen Z is falling for it. Rising unemployment and mass layoffs are making the problem worse.

I received an email from a recruiter who had viewed my LinkedIn profile. The salary was generous. The work was fully remote. The message was polished, personalised and strangely flattering. I had ...

Scammers love to prey on hope, and with a 4.3 percent unemployment rate in the U.S. as of August 2025, they’ve got a lot of hopeful job seekers to pounce on. No matter the economic environment, though ...

CHICO — A little over a year ago I wrote a Scam of the Week column about a fake Amazon hiring going around that misjudged its target audience, sometimes comically. Well, I hadn’t heard anything new ...

If you have a college student heading to campus soon, most likely their mind is on classes, tuition and the endless list of ...