The Tarrant County Sheriff's Office said scammers are impersonating personnel and trying to get people to pay for missed jury ...

Online purchase scams dropped to the fourth spot this year. These scams made up 30.3% of submissions to the BBB Scam Tracker, with 87.5% of victims reporting financial losses.

Scammers are constantly switching up their tactics to get you to fall for their tricks which is why knowing how to spot an online scam has never been more important.

2. Task scams The FTC recently warned of a growing threat from a specific type of online job scam in which victims are approached about work, usually via unsolicited messages on WhatsApp or similar.

Online scammers swindled people out of a record amount of money in 2024, according to a newly released report from the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3). The IC3 said Wednesday in its ...

However, be on the lookout for scams. Many would-be pet owners turn to the internet to find their future cat or dog, but experts say a shocking 80% of sponsored pet advertisements may be fake.

And the Office of the Attorney General released their list of top 10 consumer complaints they received in 2024, as follows: Retail sales (5,150) Landlord/tenant (3,856) Automobile (3,761) Internet ...

If you think you’ve been a victim of an online scheme, smishing or phishing, report it to the Attorney General’s Consumer Fraud Hotline in Chicago at 1-800-386-5438.

The department said online scams are at the top of the list of crimes it sees each year. UPD told KBTX that the young population on A&M’s campus is a prime target for scammers to take advantage of.

WASHINGTON — It’s tax season, and as you get ready to file, so do scammers. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released its yearly "Dirty Dozen" list of tax scams for 2025, alerting taxpayers ...

In 2023, Americans lost $12.5 billion to online scams, with Alabama contributing $96.4 million and 5,763 victims to that total, a recent study by reverse search company Social Catfish found.