The 2025 Scam Tracker Risk Report just hit the public and Karen Reeves, President & CEO of the BBB shared some encouraging ...

McAfee, in its latest “The State of the Scamiverse 2026” report, offers an in-depth analysis of the most impactful scams of 2025. The report notes that Brits received an average of eight scam messages ...

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) warned of a massive increase in losses from social media scams since 2020, exceeding $2.1 billion in 2025. According to reports to the FTC's Consumer Sentinel ...

American investors lost $11.4 billion U.S. to cryptocurrency scams in 2025, according to a new report from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The amount lost to crypto scams last year was up ...

According to the FTC, fraud losses hit $15.9 billion in 2025. Imposter scams led in sheer number of reports, but investment scams caused the steepest financial damage. Every year, the Federal Trade ...

We’ve all gotten those sketchy texts from someone claiming to be your bank, a suspicious call from "Social Security," or a too-good-to-be-true investment tip from a new online friend. While many are ...

The FBI is warning that phone-call scams using caller ID spoofing and impersonation have already stolen hundreds of millions of dollars from people in the United States, including at least $215 ...

The billions of dollars lost to fraud just keep piling up. Crooks and con artists stole a record $15.9 billion in 2025 in a variety of scams — up from $12.5 billion in 2024, according to the latest ...

Americans lost $7.2 billion to crypto investment scams in 2025, according to a new report from the FBI, making it the top source of financial losses from fraud reported to the agency last year. Many ...

Shoring up security measures is paying off for retailers. The latest "Impact of Theft & Violence 2026" report showed that retailers had a 12.4 percent decrease in shoplifting incidents as well as an 8 ...

Africans lose money to scammers nearly twice as often as people from other countries do, according to recent survey data, and the financial costs in countries like South Africa are serious. In October ...

The most frequent form of fraud? Someone pretending to be someone else — the FBI, the FTC, the IRS, your bank, your grandson, the new love of your life. The Federal Trade Commission says the spike in ...