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Three men face charges in an East Coast crime ring that has drained more than $1 million from elderly victims.
Three men now face federal charges for allegedly running a sweepstakes-style fraud ring along the East Coast that prosecutors say stole more than $1 million...
Federal agents arrested 19 people in a global ring that drained more than $40 million from over 500 older Americans.
More than 500 older Americans lost a combined sum exceeding $40 million to a network of scammers who posed as tech-support agents, according to federal...
Fake jury-duty calls threaten arrest unless you pay by gift card, but real courts summon you by mail.
Scammers posing as federal court officials are calling Americans with threats of immediate arrest for missing jury duty and demanding payment through gift cards, cryptocurrency,...
$80,000 was stolen from a Michigan senior, and a sentenced courier means she got every dollar back.
A Macomb County senior lost $80,000 after scammers directed her to withdraw cash and hand it to a courier posing as a federal agent. The...
There is no new ‘chip’ Medicare card, so any call demanding a fee to send one is a scam.
Medicare beneficiaries across the country are receiving phone calls claiming they must pay a fee for a new “chip” Medicare card or risk losing their...
So-called task scams show fake earnings for liking videos, then demand a crypto deposit to withdraw
People searching for easy side income are being drawn into a fraud scheme that mimics gig work, shows them fabricated earnings for tasks like liking...
Fake toll-payment texts are the fastest-growing government-imposter scam, part of $3.5 billion in losses
Fake toll-payment texts claiming drivers owe money to programs like E-ZPass, SunPass, FasTrak, and TxTag have become the fastest-growing category of government imposter fraud in...
Anyone caught in the DATS data breach can claim up to $5,000 for losses by September 24
People whose personal information was exposed in the Drug and Alcohol Treatment Services Inc. data breach can file claims for up to $5,000 in documented...
Eleven people have pleaded guilty in a $65 million ring that used overseas call centers to swindle thousands of older Americans
Eleven people have now admitted their roles in a $65 million fraud operation that used call centers based in India to steal from thousands of...
AI voice-cloning scams that fake a grandchild’s voice have drained $2.3 billion from older Americans this year, and calling the family back is the one reliable check
Older Americans have lost roughly $2.3 billion to fraud so far this year, with AI-powered voice-cloning scams that imitate a grandchild in distress accounting for...
Dohman data-breach victims can claim $50 in cash or up to $5,000 in losses by September 10
People whose protected health information was exposed in the Dohman, Akerlund and Eddy data breach face a September 10 deadline to file claims for a...
An 83-year-old wired $44,000 to a caller posing as his bank’s fraud team, money a wire transfer generally can’t claw back
An 83-year-old man wired $44,000 to a caller who claimed to be part of his bank’s fraud team, following instructions he believed would protect his...
Six people are under arrest in a $2.8 million “gold bar” scam that pushed elderly Texans to hand their savings to couriers at the door
Six people face arrest in connection with a scheme that allegedly drained $2.8 million from elderly Texans by convincing them to convert their savings into...
A retired journalist lost $270,000 after an online romance turned into a fake gold-investment pitch that drained his life savings
A retired journalist watched $270,000 disappear after an online romance gradually shifted into what appeared to be a gold-investment opportunity. The scheme followed a pattern...
Federal prosecutors charged a man in a $149 million scam built on Bitcoin ATMs and bulk gold, the same playbook draining older Americans’ savings
A retiree lost $1.49 million in life savings after being tricked into feeding cash into Bitcoin ATMs and wiring funds to buy gold bars, according...
A Connecticut man drew nine years in federal prison for a romance scam that drained victims nationwide, part of a widening crackdown
Naabanyin Aniagyei-Cobbold, a 30-year-old Connecticut man, was sentenced on March 5, 2026, to nine years in federal prison for wire fraud and money laundering tied...
No $2,000 tariff-dividend check has been approved, and officials warn the texts promising one are a scam
Scammers are blasting text messages to phones across the country claiming that recipients qualify for $2,000 tariff rebate checks, and state and federal officials are...
Federal prosecutors say a romance-scam ring drained up to $1.1 million each from more than 100 older Americans, then splurged on Lamborghinis and Cybertrucks
A Ghanaian national was extradited to the United States to face charges that he helped run a romance-fraud network responsible for stealing more than $8...
An elderly Hawaii woman handed a courier nine gold bars worth $137,000 before scammers pushed her to drain $429,000 more, and one arrest followed
An elderly Hawaii woman handed nine gold bars worth $137,000 to a courier in Kaneohe after scammers posing as government officials directed her to liquidate...
People swept into the Alta Resources data breach can claim up to $2,000, or $50 without proof, by August 17
People affected by the Alta Resources Corp. data breach have a narrow window to file claims worth up to $2,000 with documented losses or $50...