If you receive an unexpected message from a stranger offering investment advice, delete it immediately. If you respond, you ...

If you’ve already sent money, stop sending more and report it immediately to the FTC or the FBI. You should also notify your ...

At the beginning of 2025, panic about fraud and human trafficking erupted on Chinese social media. It started when a Chinese actor called Wang Xing was tricked into travelling to Thailand for an ...

Cryptocurrency schemes, sometimes tied to mass scam centers abroad, have shot up since the pandemic and are hitting close to ...

Key takeawaysA recently divorced Bitcoin investor lost his entire retirement fund, one full Bitcoin, to an AI-powered romance ...

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POCAHONTAS, Ark. (KAIT) - A tradition that goes back decades. The Annual Old Fashioned Hog Butchering, hosted by the Eddie Mae Herron Museum in Pocahontas on Saturday, Feb 15. The event is chance for ...

Picture this; you're minding your business, browsing the latest cat memes, when suddenly, a mysterious message from a stranger lands in your inbox or DMs. It's not the classic junk email from a Middle ...

Romance scams are unfortunately common. Swindlers gain people's trust by pretending to date them online, and Americans have lost millions of dollars as a result. One woman in Philadelphia recently ...

The Department of Justice has charged four men with perpetrating a scam that involved persuading victims to invest large sums of money into a fraudulent platform. (Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- There's a new scam alert about "pig butchering." The term refers to a heavily scripted scheme to "beef up" their victims' egos before taking everything they have. It all starts when ...

Tricking people out of their money by maintaining a dialog with them over time to establish a friendship or flirtation. The pig butchering term comes from fattening pigs before slaughtering, which ...