Last year, Americans reported losing more than $12.5 billion to fraud. The biggest losses resulted from scams that started ...

In 2023, an average of 67 million Americans receive monthly Social Security checks, totaling over $1 trillion paid during the year. Social Security: No Matter Your Age, Do Not Claim Benefits Until You ...

While financial scams have always been around, the variety of schemes that scammers employ to steal money are easily proliferated these days with the internet, social media, AI and crypto.

An alarming growth in “trusted government agency/entity” scams has occurred over the last four years, now with a new “money ...

The Social Security Fairness Act, which was signed into law in January, extended Social Security benefits to federal employees, railroad employees and civil servants whose jobs aren’t covered by ...

After receiving a call from someone claiming to be from her bank, Greg’s grandmother was told she owed $50,000 due to a ...

“While most of the previous attacks have exposed sensitive but less critical information, the compromise of SSNs creates far ...

Not surprisingly, scammers have taken to targeting Social Security accounts, with many doing so by way ... If you want to take an extra step, the SSA encourages you to report the text message to the ...

Scammers and cybercriminals stole a record total of $16.6 billion from Americans in 2024, marking a 33% increase in losses from 2023, the FBI said in a new report on April 23. The report released by ...