An 82-year-old woman nearly lost $7,000 to a Bitcoin scam before a quick-thinking gas station clerk and a Crestwood police ...

CHICO — A reader recently sent me an email regarding an unusual transaction from her “bank” on a Sunday, which got me wondering: are certain scams more likely to appear outside of business hours? This ...

According to the FTC, fraud losses hit $15.9 billion in 2025. Imposter scams led in sheer number of reports, but investment scams caused the steepest financial damage.

The victims were led to the Arizona convenience store by an increasingly familiar scam: Crooks had tricked them into believing they were in legal trouble, their bank accounts were hacked or that they ...

Financial scams targeting seniors are exploding, with both the number of victims and dollar amount of losses doubling over the last four years, writes Rolland Johannsen, of Capital Performance Group.

Gail Barr was tricked into paying $9,260 through a Bitcoin ATM in a jury duty scam on her 70th birthday. Arizona's new crypto ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. — The Washington Attorney General's Office (AGO) issued a warning about potential scams involving charities requesting donations via smartphone tap-to-pay features. During the 2024 ...

Beware of Fake Payment Requests – Here’s How Scammers Are Stealing Your Money With the rise in digital payments, UPI frauds have also surged, and the latest trick used by scammers is Pull Transaction ...

Retail has spent the last decade perfecting frictionless commerce through one-click checkouts, instant refunds and no-questions-asked returns. But the same systems designed to remove doubt and delay ...

The IRS Office of Chief Counsel advised in a Chief Counsel Advice memorandum (CCA) that generally, for tax years 2018 through 2025, only transactions entered into for profit qualify as deductible ...

Several users in India recently complained that Unified Payments Interface (UPI) transactions are hanging or declining outright on platforms like PhonePe, Google Pay, and Paytm. In all these cases, ...