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 ...

From January 2025 to July 2026, the FBI received nearly 61,000 complaints regarding officer impersonation scams.

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 ...

Americans lost $2.1 billion to social media scams in 2025, an eightfold increase since 2020, according to a report released Monday by the Federal Trade Commission. Nearly 30% of Americans who reported ...

Every year, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the agency tasked with protecting the public from deceptive or unfair business practices, receives millions of fraud reports from consumers. To help ...

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 scams, some of which were fueled by AI, can be especially effective because they exploit the built-in authority and urgency people associate with institutions. Cyber Threats FBI The number of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...