May 27—A Florida man was arrested Monday in connection with a 2023 scam that cost Lafayette's Chamber of Commerce and its former executive director over $500,000, and the U.S. Treasury about $343,000.

In its 2023 Scam and Robocall Report, T-Mobile unveils the industry’s top scam trends and shares how Scam Shield helps keep customers protected BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--T-Mobile US, Inc.

HERE’S A SCAM. HE SAYS IS EASILY AVOIDABLE BEFORE WE START OUR TOP FIVE COUNTDOWN, A DISHONORABLE MENTION MEDICARE SCAM CALLS. EVERY DAY I HEAR FROM AT LEAST HALF A DOZEN VIEWERS ABOUT CALLS THEY’VE ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — The Better Business Bureau (BBB) has some numbers from all the reports you submitted to BBB Scam Tracker last year. We often have preconceived ideas of who falls for the most scams ...

A 2021 study using federal data found fewer than 5% of victims reported scams to the BBB or a government agency ...

ROCHE EXPLAINS HOW TO SPOT AND AVOID THE SCAM. FOLKS, IT’S OFFICIAL. ACCORDING TO THE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION, MORE PEOPLE ARE BEING CONTACTED BY SCAMMERS THROUGH TEXT MESSAGES RATHER THAN BY PHONE ...

Consumers lost a record $10 billion to fraud in 2023, and imposter scams were the most prevalent swindle, according to the Federal Trade Commission. Nearly 854,000 people filed complaints to the FTC ...

Global study reveals consumer overwhelm, caused by the onslaught of increasingly believable text, email, and social media scams amid a rising AI-powered scam surge People receive an average of nearly ...

The next time you drive down your street, imagine this – nearly every house on your block has been hit by a scam of some type this year. A n ew study by BeenVerified found that 71.10% of Americans ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Who among us has not handed $50,000 cash in a shoebox to a purported undercover CIA ...

Romance scam victims surged by more than a fifth (22%) in 2023, compared to 2022, according to new figures from Lloyds Bank. The average amount lost per incident was £6937 ($8847) last year. This was ...