Australia's National Anti-Scam Centre attributed a sharp drop in scams reported and the financial losses incurred in 2024 to ...

Online scams take various forms, including phishing emails, fraudulent websites, fake investment opportunities and social ...

AcknowledgementsGood morning and thank you to the Australian Institute of Criminology's Deputy Director, Rick Brown, for the introduction. I'm pleased ...

People who commit fraud and scams are commonly called con artists. Con artists don't just target people who have a lot of money. A con artist may steal a small amount from many people. They use a ...

The new Targeting Scams Report shows a light at the end of the tunnel, but the statistics may not show the full picture.

More than 80% of people who were targeted by investment/cryptocurrency scams in 2024 reported losing money to the BBB Scam ...

A former Cheshire care worker lost her entire life savings to an online dating scam. The 67-year-old woman, referred to as 'Julia Simpson' to protect her identity, was targeted by a conman posing as a ...

Fraud reports remained at 2.6M, but financial losses surged, with 38% of victims reporting monetary loss in 2024.

A columnist who has worked at the Washington Post since 1984 quit on Monday, after she said the publisher Will Lewis killed ...

A new report from the Better Business Bureau highlights the top four scams that people encountered most frequently last year.

Sen. Blackburn teamed up with Senator John Hickenlooper (D-CO) to introduce the Romance Scam Prevention Act. The bill would ...

A new federal report shows scams cost Iowans more than $50-million dollars last year. The Federal Trade Commission says it ...