The FTC is warning taxpayers to keep an eye out for phishing and smishing scams aimed at stealing tax refunds and personal ...

Data shows a more than four-fold increase, from 2020 through 2024, in reports from older adults who say they lost $10,000 or ...

Phony promises to triple your retirement savings and other wild schemes engineered by scammers can stir up all sorts of financial woes for seniors. According to a new report from the Federal Trade ...

A director with the watchdog told Congress this week that the FBI, CFPB and FTC haven’t addressed many recommendations from an April 2025 report on digital money-making scams.

Seniors have been consistently targeted by a wide range of scams. New data from the Federal Trade Commission show that reported financial fraud losses among older Americans increased sharply in 2024, ...

If you suspect that a new love interest has malicious intentions, make sure to report them to the dating site or app you are ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON -- Love is blind -- and scammers are taking advantage of that. Americans lost more than $201 million to romance scams in 2019, up 40% from 2018, according to a new Federal Trade Commission ...

Last year, Americans reported losing more than $12.5 billion to fraud, according to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Consumers reported losing the most to investment scams, followed by imposter ...

Scam artists are using the Supreme Court’s recent Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ruling as leverage to collection personal information from consumers, according to a Federal Trade ...