The Elder Fraud Unit stresses using the “Five Ps” to spot scams — pretending, problems, prizes, pressure and paying. The ...

Every single week, we have an elderly senior who sits in our office and talks about how they have lost everything,” a ...

Getting a brand-new iPhone should be a moment you enjoy. You open the box. You power it on. Everything feels secure. Unfortunately, scammers know that moment too. Over the past few weeks, we've heard ...

Does creatine really work? Are LED face masks worth the money? Test your knowledge of bogus remedies and real treatments. Credit...By Sean Dong Supported by By Erik Vance I edit the Scam or Not column ...

BRADENTON, Fla. (WFLA) — A man is dead, and a suspect is at large following a shooting at a Bradenton home Wednesday afternoon, authorities said. The Manatee County Sheriff’s Office said it was just ...

A robocall scam is targeting hundreds of thousands of consumers each week, with fraudsters impersonating employees of Walmart in an effort to obtain people's personal information, according to a ...

Robocalls often aim to make money from you, either through scams or questionable business pitches. A common scam involves callers posing as a benefits company to get your Medicare number. Scammers may ...

Holiday scam robocalls and robotexts are surging nationwide, with scammers posing as charities, delivery services, and trusted organizations to take advantage of peak shopping stress. Fraudsters are ...

An ongoing scam involving robocalls directed at people who’ve shopped at Walmart is now the target of the Federal Communications Commission. Last week, the agency demanded that SK Teleco -- the voice ...

BRADENTON, Fla. (WFLA) — The city of Bradenton sent out a warning Monday after the emergency alert system it uses was targeted in a cyberattack. CodeRED, the emergency alert system the city uses, told ...

On October 14, the U.S. government announced one of its most significant operations against what it described as a “global scourge of human trafficking and cyber-enabled financial fraud.” In the ...

First, it was phony parking tickets, then toll road scams, now scammers are at it again with an all-new, all-bad DMV text scam. The unfortunate popularity of this latest grift has caused states from ...