A Houston woman picked up her phone believing she was saving her life savings from criminals. By the time she hung up, every account she relied on for her future had been emptied, the result of a fake ...

A scammer posing as an FBI official has successfully taken a Wells Fargo customer's entire life savings. Diane Fendley of Houston received what she believed was an urgent fraud alert text purportedly ...

Larry and Barbara Cook thought they were helping government agents. In the end, they found themselves victims of tax and Medicare gotchas, as well as the scammers. It took Larry Cook and his wife a ...

Scammers are draining seniors’ life savings at staggering rates, a new Federal Trade Commission report shows, with older Americans reporting about four times more in fraud losses in 2024 than in 2020.

The FBI is warning consumers about a sophisticated new scam called “The Phantom Hacker,” which has already stolen more than $1 billion from unsuspecting Americans, many of them senior citizens.The ...

A couple who watched $42,000 vanish in a slick online scam and then spent two years fighting their bank is not an outlier. It ...