NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Tennesseans lost more than $12 million to scammers pretending to be government officials this year.

Grammatical and spelling errors are also signs of a scammer, because banks and government agencies are unlikely to misspell words in their communications. But absent these mistakes, consumers should ...

Holiday email traffic increases sharply at the end of the year, creating an environment that scammers actively exploit.

Looking back, the initial contact had all the elements of the earliest “Nigerian prince” email scams. The writer, who uses the name of a real member of a real book club, opened with detailed flattery ...

Christmas is a time for family and friends, a time for love, and a time for scammers to try and catch you off guard. Every ...

The franchise owner of a Dunkin' in DeBary called deputies after discovering he had been scammed into wiring $166,564 to a ...

The holidays can make it difficult to sort through pending deliveries and figure out which ones are real or a scam. There may be a simple way to find out. A new report in Readers ...

The festive season is a time of giving, but it’s also a prime opportunity for scammers to take advantage of unsuspecting ...

Thanks to rapid advances in artificial intelligence, the cybercriminals seeking to dupe you into handing over your retirement ...

Whether it’s vishing, quishing, smishing, or old-school spear phishing, it takes more than instinct to spot cyberattacks.

The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) is intensifying its warnings to the public regarding a sophisticated fraudulent activities that misappropriate the ...

When it comes to online shopping, customers aren’t the only ones who can fall victim to scams. Many scams target businesses and sellers instead, therefore anyone selling goods online must know how to ...