Romance and investment fraud is at record levels but what can you do to prevent being caught out.

Jackie Crenshaw says a scammer posing as a widowed contractor stole much of the retirement savings she spent decades building ...

The episode shows how anyone can be deceived — even a city with a population of more than 231,000 people and an entire ...

It began with a simple “Hello” on the social media platform Threads. The retiree, who lives near the south-western German ...

A 77-year-old woman in Western New York thought she was talking to a man named “Oliver Wilson.” Federal prosecutors said the ...

Journalist Carlos Barragán tells Reema Khrais what drives Nigeria’s “Yahoo Boys” to crime and how they profit from loneliness ...

In this excerpt from WIRED Book Club pick “The Yahoo Boys,” journalist Carlos Barragán traces one scammer’s journey from flop to fortune.

Romance scams are one of the most costly types of fraud in America, according to the Federal Trade Commission: people gave ...

While fraud is nothing new, today's scams are constantly evolving. The latest advances in technology, like artificial ...

It should come as no surprise by now that I enjoy a good scambait. Scambaiting, or the art of deliberately wasting scammers' ...

A Georgia man pleaded guilty to a romance scam that defrauded a 77-year-old New York woman of over $177,000.