Scammers are reviving the Xfinity imposter scam, now claiming that a previously offered 50% discount is being removed, and threatening a $1,000 fee for non ...

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Fake college enrollments have been surging as crime rings deploy “ghost students” — chatbots that join online classrooms and ...

A woman reported at 3:13 p.m. Thursday that she received a phone call from a “Deputy” who informed her that she had a warrant ...

New data from the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), a division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), reveals that Internet-enabled government imposter scams have skyrocketed in the ...

This strategy is often referred to as an imposter scam. Granted, any crook pretending to be somebody they're not is an imposter, but imposter scams typically refer to somebody pretending to have ...

Watch out for mail-based scams, the U.S. Postal Service said last week. Here are tips on how to protect yourself from fraud and ID theft.

A man has been sentenced to 12 years in prison following his involvement in an imposter scam that robbed multiple elderly people of thousands in life savings all across the Midwest. According to ...

But you want to be sure the cause—and the person asking you to support it—are real." "Imposter scams come in many varieties, but they all work the same way: a scammer pretends to be someone ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — A Knoxville woman is accused of shooting a man who she said scammed her out of $300 for her cable service.

Imposter scams, on the other hand, accounted for $2.95 billion in losses coming from American checkbooks. These scams involve a fraudster pretending to be someone trustworthy or an authority ...