The Federal Trade Commission released an analysis on December 22, 2025, showing that consumers reported nearly 65,000 rental ...

An impersonation scam, or imposter scam, is when a criminal pretends to be someone they aren't to get access to your money or financial information. A new report from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC ...

FILE - (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File) (Charles Krupa, Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.) SAN ANTONIO – Cryptocurrency scams are booming, and ...

Brunswick County lost more than $4 million to a phishing scam in late 2020, and it has yet to completely recover. According to court filings, between Oct. 16, 2020, and Nov 25, 2020, phishing scammers ...

The highest numbers of scams were in California, Florida and Texas. Senior citizens lost almost $1 billion in scams in 2020, according to an FBI report released this week. A total of 105,301 people ...

Fraud losses reported by people 60 and older climbed to nearly $2.4 billion in 2024, quadrupling since 2020 Investment scams—often tied to social m ...

Watch out for these five devastating scams in 2026 - Ruses range from romance and employment scams, to sophisticated ...

InvestigateTV - Senior citizens have long been the target of scammers, but according to the AARP, the rate of elder financial exploitation has more than doubled since 2020. Director of the AARP’s Bank ...

Investment scams have conned almost 100,000 people into handing over £2.6bn to fraudsters since 2020, new research by the Pensions Management Institute (PMI) has found. Between January 2020 and ...

The FTC’s 2024–2025 report on protecting older consumers shows total fraud losses among adults 60 and older have quadrupled ...

“People will be looking for ways to alleviate their burdens,” Valesquez says of 2026. “So when they get a [message] that says ...