The messages–often sent via text or email–try to scare victims into paying bogus fines immediately or risk penalties, court ...

Scammers try to trick drivers into thinking they face a court date and more trouble if they don't pay up for so-called ...

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So you got a text saying you need to be in court. This is the first you're hearing of it. The notice looks official enough. It says it's from the State of Tennessee and the General Sessions Court of ...

Three years after being sentenced to prison over a COVID scam, a Florida man who immigrated from Haiti had his citizenship revoked recently. According to the Department of Justice, U.S. District Judge ...

A coalition of Big Tech companies is working on a more comprehensive solution to combat online scams. As first reported by Axios, Google, Microsoft, LinkedIn, Meta, Amazon, OpenAI, Adobe, Levi Strauss ...

Pauline Newman, a 98-year-old federal appeals judge suspended by her colleagues over concerns about her mental fitness, has asked the Supreme Court to step into her fight to resume hearing cases, her ...

Americans are losing at least $119 billion every year to scams, according to a new estimate from the nonprofit Consumer Federation of America, a consumer advocacy group. Subscribe to read this story ...

Many cybercrime victims are retargeted by online scammers posing as lawyers or other professionals who promise they can recover stolen money. By Tara Siegel Bernard It has been two years since Nick ...

California Attorney General Rob Bonta has filed a lawsuit against six individuals who created three sham nonprofits to pocket ...

Scammers are getting BUSTED on camera, and we’re showing you exactly how their tricks work. From staged car accident scams to fake charity schemes and other scams exploding right now, we break down ...

Criminal proceedings against a retired religious studies professor accused of scamming a woman he met on a Christian dating website in 2024 will proceed after a judge denied his second request for a ...