An Orange County woman shared her story with local media after getting a message from a past winner.

They prey on owners by using AI to fake images of their pets and conjuring up detailed backstories and fake evidence to claim ...

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Scammers spoofed an Arizona man’s father’s phone number and claimed his parents in Virginia were at gunpoint. He sent more ...

OSCEOLA COUNTY, Fla. – Scammers are using artificial intelligence to impersonate real law enforcement officers, cloning their voices to convince people they have missed jury duty or have a warrant out ...

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Scammers tend to push the conversation off the dating app fast, onto WhatsApp or Telegram, where there is no built-in reporting feature to fall back on. Nearly three in 10 Kenyans who use dating apps ...

Today’s students and young adults are true digital natives, having grown up online, learning to navigate digital spaces as a normal part of daily life. As they transition to college, they turn to ...

Many of us still view cryptocurrency as a niche asset. Yet some estimates claim that nearly one in 10 people globally own some. That’s why you may have noticed Bitcoin or crypto ATMs springing up in ...

It’s part of an operation led by Romanian organized crime groups in the U.S., who rely on magnetic stripe-based payment systems to carry out their thefts, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported Sunday ...

Victims of an ongoing officer impersonation scam lost more than $1.6 billion combined over an 18-month period according to the FBI. In a warning issued Thursday, the agency said it received nearly ...

A Durham woman lost nearly $2,000 to a fraudulent Durham County jury duty scam, marking one of the hundreds of reported complaints across central North Carolina so far in 2026. The victim, who didn't ...