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 ...

Two designers share the details of an unfortunate cautionary tale. BOH provides a playbook to ensure it doesn’t happen to you.

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

Most consumer scams are a result of online shopping, and consumers are particularly vulnerable during the holiday shopping ...

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 ...

Christmas scams in 2025 are more convincing than ever, with AI-powered phishing, fake delivery messages, and realistic ...

CHARLOTTE — According to FBI stats for North Carolina last year, three of the biggest scams -- based on dollars lost -- include: Action 9 attorney Jason Stoogenke says to remember that many scams play ...

AI is the ultimate force multiplier for cybercriminals, because it makes scams faster, cheaper, and more convincing at scale. It can automate tasks that criminals used to do manually—or would never ...