A polished seal, a familiar logo, and a web address that looks almost perfect. That’s all it takes to trick someone into handing over personal details meant for law enforcement or a federal agency.

Like all areas of life, the guitar world is rife with scams, and a fake Guitar Center website – which recently conned one player out of more than $1,000 – has become the latest in a long line of scam ...

With the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics still ahead, an alarming trend is already accelerating: fake ticket websites and lookalike official portals are multiplying across search engines, social ...

The Montana Department of Justice is warning of a new scam using a fraudulent website to trick Montanans into sending payments for unpaid tickets or toll fees.S ...

Crypto scam uses fake AI chatbot impersonating Google's Gemini AI to promote fraudulent 'Google Coin' cryptocurrency. Malwarebytes researchers expose scam.

Cybersecurity experts warn criminals are using fake ticket and betting sites to steal money and personal information from fans.

Here’s the newest con in town: Scammers are using AI to clone legit websites, and they’re scary good at it. I’m talking about perfect logos, identical layouts, right down to the fonts and buttons. The ...

Marketplace's Meghan McCarty Carino chronicles how a search for a niche hair product led to a scam site that was almost identical to the legitimate one.

California consumers were warned Monday about confidence schemes from fraudulent cryptocurrency websites sometimes referred to as “pig butchering” scams. The typical pig butchering scheme involves a ...

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