The Consumer Federation of America has sued the tech giant, alleging it failed to protect users from ads tied to fraud while ...

A fake Facebook profile, a $500 mower deposit and a vanished “friend” show how online scammers are multiplying, costing ...

American consumers lost a total of $2.1 billion to scams on social media last year, according to the Federal Trade Commission ...

The FTC says Facebook generated more fraud losses in 2025 than all text and email scams combined. Here's what to watch out ...

Amanda Prior-Grissinger starts her mornings like many moms of young children: She breastfeeds her 1-year-old daughter and sips some coffee. Sitting on the couch in the living room of her Westerville ...

Ever get a Facebook message from an old friend, only to find out it wasn't really that friend? That's exactly how a recent Facebook impersonation scam almost cost someone $2,500. A scammer hijacked a ...

IOWA’S NEWS LEADER. WELL, RIGHT NOW MID AMERICAN ENERGY IS WARNING CUSTOMERS ABOUT A NEW SCAM CIRCULATING ON FACEBOOK RIGHT NOW. OFFICIALS SAY A FAKE PROFILE IS POSING AS THE UTILITY’S BUSINESS PAGE, ...

(KRON) – The Santa Clara Police Department brought awareness to a romance scheme after a potential scammer attempted to scam someone in the department’s Facebook comments. On Sunday, Santa Clara PD ...

SHREVEPORT, La. - If it feels like you're constantly seeing friends post, “I’ve been hacked — don’t accept friend requests from me,” you’re not imagining things. New research shows fake Facebook ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (WHAT THE TECH?) — Social media spreads information quickly, and scammers use it to their advantage. Jamey Tucker shares a viral post about a missing police officer that’s actually a ...

Your personal information is on data broker sites for anyone to find. Learn how scammers exploit this data and how to remove ...