The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act ... Employers wanting to rid themselves of troublesome employees without following proper procedures could threaten to report them to the FBI unless they quit.

Big money, in fact. Tech support fraud is the most reported fraud among victims over 60 years old, according to the FBI. In 2021, that agency’s Internet Crime Complaint Center, also known as IC3 ...

Confidence fraud and romance scams caused victims to lose about $211 million in 2017 alone, the FBI report said. One version of this is when a criminal romances someone online, asks for money and ...

Since 2014, The Marshall Project has been curating some of the best criminal justice reporting from around the web. In these records you will find the most recent and the most authoritative articles ...

In 2021, 13,900 older adults reported falling for the tech support fraud. Not all older adults report losing money to fraud, either because they did not lose money or were embarrassed to have been ...

Fraud schemes cost Americans $10.3 billion in 2022, according to the FBI's Internet Crime Report from ... The primary federal law for prosecuting cybercrime in the U.S. is the Computer Fraud and ...

In 2022, the total number of fraud complaints received from victims over the age of 60 was more than 88,000, according to a new Elder Fraud report from the FBI.