Banks reported slightly more instances of fraud in 2024 compared to 2023, and consumers reported slightly fewer instances of scams. However, scams became costlier as criminals extracted more funds ...

Scammers are playing the long game. That's one of the key takeaways in the Better Business Bureau's new risk report, which analyzes reports made to its scam tracker in 2024 and determines which are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Well-versed online crooks, con artists and fraudsters snagged $12.5 billion from unwitting consumers in 2024, setting yet another ...

The FTC reports a record $12.5 billion lost to scams in 2024, with investment fraud, job scams, and debt relief fraud topping the list. The FTC reports a record $12.5 billion lost to scams in 2024, ...

Crypto fraud revenue is estimated to have hit record levels last year amid a surge in so-called romance scams as cybercriminals leverage artificial intelligence and become more organized, blockchain ...

Meta projected that 10% of its overall sales in 2024, or about $16 billion, came from running online ads for scams and banned goods, according to a Thursday report from Reuters. That included ads for ...

Older Americans continued to lose billions of dollars to fraud in 2024, with scams increasingly exploiting trust, urgency and new technologies. The Federal Trade Commission said impostor scams, ...