There’s a new PayPal phishing scam making the rounds, and it’s so convincing that even security-conscious users are getting caught in it. Unlike typical scams riddled with typos and fake domains, this ...

Pew Research Center conducted this study to understand Americans’ experiences with and views of online scams and attacks. For this analysis, we surveyed 9,397 adults from April 14 to 20, 2025.

Corrections & Clarifications: A previous version of this story included data provided to USA TODAY that misstated the amount lost to scams globally last year. It was $1.026 billion. Scammers have ...

New research shows how AI is powering romance-baiting scams by building trust over time. Learn what the study reveals and how ...

A highly sophisticated scam is hitting Mounds View and appearing to come directly from city officials. The city says it's fake and targeting your personal information from public records it posts in ...

Scammers are working harder than ever to trick people online, but WhatsApp is hitting back in a big way. In the first half of 2025, WhatsApp removed more than 6.8 million accounts tied to global scam ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Matthew F. Erskine is a trusts and estates attorney. As the 2025 tax season unfolds, the Internal Revenue Service has unveiled its ...

Sextortion scams, where a malicious actor attempts to extort money by threatening to publish stolen intimate photographs or video, are one of the most insidious forms of online scams. But in a ...

Technology offers so many convenient ways to keep in touch with friends and family, and manage our daily lives: cell phone calls, emails, texts, social media, and beyond. But it also allows would-be ...

The gentle voice of an elderly woman named Edna is heard over the phone. "I'm going to call Ticketmaster and see if we can get us some tickets to a Taylor Swift concert, OK?" she says. "Will you call ...

Operated by crime syndicates and fostered by the country’s military junta, the number of vast complexes such as KK Park on the Thai-Myanmar border has doubled since 2021 ...