FTC Commissioner Melissa Holyoak delivers a simple, powerful rule for spotting scams: if someone unexpectedly tells you to pay or move your money to fix a “problem,” it’s a fraud. Real officials will ...

Snap beneficiaries, federal workers, and more are impacted by this shutdown, and scammers could also be taking advantage of this time.

The safest way to handle an FTC settlement email apparently from PayPal is to not click any links and instead go directly to ...

Adults aged 60 and older were more likely to report extraordinarily high losses. An 18-year-old consumer in Michigan lost $4,800 this summer to a 'transfer it to protect it' scam after receiving an ...

An impersonation scam, or imposter scam, is when a criminal pretends to be someone they aren't to get access to your money or financial information. A new report from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC ...

WASHINGTON -- Love is blind -- and scammers are taking advantage of that. Americans lost more than $201 million to romance scams in 2019, up 40% from 2018, according to a new Federal Trade Commission ...

In April the Federal Trade Commission published, “Consumer Fraud in the United States, 2011.” The report presents findings of a survey commissioned by the agency to examine consumer experiences ...