Days after the call from "the man from Microsoft", Brian realised he had been scammed of his life's savings. The well-spoken caller had rung out of the blue, offered to fix a problem, taken control of ...

Scammers have various methods when it comes to getting their hands on your phone number. You might think, "Well, what's the big deal? Isn't it easy to find someone's number these days, no matter what?

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Lars Daniel covers digital evidence and forensics in life and law. Imagine this: a sweet, polite “grandma” answering a scammer’s ...

Scammers operate everywhere—job recruitment sites, across social media, on dating apps and in your text messages. Arguably the most hurtful and damaging of these scams is romance scams, where the ...

The world of social media, while brimming with cat videos, family photos, and friendly banter, also harbors a sinister side. This darker realm is teeming with swindlers and scam artists, cunningly ...

Scammers have various methods when it comes to getting their hands on your phone number. You might think, “Well, what’s the big deal? Isn’t it easy to find someone’s number these days, no matter what?

The FTC has issued an alert about scammers calling students and parents and pretending to be from the school’s financial aid or bursar’s office. Other back-to-school related scams are also making the ...

Learn more about the teqniques scammers use on their victims and the best way to avoid them. At the start of the year, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced a Florida woman had been convicted ...

Alfred Ng was a senior reporter for CNET News. He was raised in Brooklyn and previously worked on the New York Daily News's social media and breaking news teams. For a while, scammers have been ...

Scammers are impersonating genuine recruitment companies and advertising fake jobs to try to steal personal information, businesses are warning. Fraudsters are posting vacancies online and sending ...