The Better Business Bureau (BBB) Scam Tracker Risk Report is out for 2024, and the results show the riskiest scams reported by consumers are investment scams. The thing these scams have in common is ...

A Meta-powered investment scam is spreading across 25 countries - how to spot (and avoid) it ...

Age is just a number, particularly for online criminals. Scammers don't care how old someone is—if they can dupe someone into giving them money, that's all that matters. While always a problem, the ...

Investment scammers stole more than £97 million of savers’ cash in the first half of 2025, according to industry body UK Finance. Consumers were tricked into handing over their money through cold ...

Older investors were the hardest hit by cyber-enabled crimes in 2024, according to the latest Internet Crime Report from the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The report found losses among individuals ...

Millennials, often seen as tech-savvy, are increasingly falling victim to sophisticated online investment scams, with over 172,000 complaints reported in 2023, totaling $2.7 billion in losses, ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Tennesseans lost more than $42.5 million to investment scams during the first half of 2025, which is the most money out of any scam in the state, according to the Federal ...

It started with a text message, seemingly meant for someone else. Ed Hayduk, a Pennsylvania resident, replied. Over the following weeks, he engaged in what he described to CBS News Philadelphia as a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Steve Weisman writes about white-collar crime. This illustration photo taken on February 6, 2023 shows a phone screen displaying a ...

The late great Benjamin Franklin once said, “an investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” While he probably meant to say this about merely having a basic education, the quote can also apply ...