A sextortion scam claims to have proof that your spouse is cheating. They even use their real name. Credit: Peter Dazeley/Getty Images The spammers. The scammers. And you. Telemarketers and junk ...

One increasingly inescapable fact of modern life is fielding endless attempts to scam you—to get your financial details, to spoof your identity, or even to engage you in an improbable romance scam.

However, a scam that uses the codes at parking meters is making people become more vigilant before they pay. “Think twice before scanning QR codes in public,” a TikTok user said in a post.

Back in 2020, the Federal Trade Commission published a consumer alert noting an increase in these types of scam emails. “The emails say they hacked into your computer and recorded you visiting ...

NEW YORK — A Brooklyn woman was scammed out of $100,000 in an elaborate scheme involving a frozen computer, an in-person meeting and a secret code word. As police search for the alleged scammer ...

An upstate New York automobile association is warning its members of a recent uptick in fraudulent emails and text messages. AAA Western and Central New York alerted its members to the fraudulent ...

NEEDHAM - Police in several Massachusetts communities are warning about a threatening scam where some victims have lost thousands of dollars. Investigators say in the scam, crooks send people an ...

An official OpenAI account on X was taken over to peddle a cryptocurrency scam on Monday evening. On Monday at 6:24PM ET, the @OpenAINewsroom account, which shares news from OpenAI and has nearly ...

By Tara Siegel Bernard After reporting this series, Tara, who writes about personal finance, thinks everything is a scam. Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers behind-the ...

A Ugandan man named Jalil Muyeke traveled to Thailand for a promising job opportunity. He ended up being trafficked into a cybercrime operation. Jalil Muyeke at his home in Uganda in July. Mr ...

CUERO — Jaxon Marie was making only his third start as a varsity quarterback when Cuero traveled to Yoakum on Friday night to play its DeWitt County rival for the 115th time. But Marie, a junior ...

On Friday, the federal treasury released a draft scam prevention framework. The government said the plan is: an economy‑wide reform to protect the Australian community from scams. It takes a ...