Spam texts have quietly become one of the most effective tools for scammers, blurring the line between annoying marketing and ...

Artificial intelligence is creating more convincing scams, with fake emails, cloned voices and spoofed caller IDs. KSL tested ...

Scammers are sophisticated criminals who use psychological techniques to manipulate their targets. Understanding why these ...

Phishing scams are becoming dangerously sophisticated by using 'punycode' to create fake web addresses that look identical to ...

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 ...

Tuesday the Federal Trade Commission announced it is cracking down on illegal telemarketers in one of the biggest multi-agency sweeps ever. The FTC is partnering with 101 law enforcement agencies, ...

Texting scams are exploding. In 2024 alone, U.S. consumers lost $470 million to them, according to the Federal Trade Commission, a number more than five times what it was just four years earlier. To ...

It’s a universal experience. Every once in a while, you’ll get a random call from your iPhone – and they’ll often be from scammers. It’s not fun, and wastes everybody’s time. Apple does offer features ...

Rep. Nick Hoheisel says the Legislature is trying to make it harder for scammers to operate and easier for victims to recover ...

Lakeside resident Chris Heise and his wife could sense something was not right last year as they spent two days on the phone with individuals they now know were scammers. But the man and woman on the ...

AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Office of the Attorney General (OAG), along with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), is conducting Operation Stop Scam Calls. Operation Stop Scam Calls is an effort to stop ...