CHICO — A reader recently sent me an email regarding an unusual transaction from her “bank” on a Sunday, which got me wondering: are certain scams more likely to appear outside of business hours? This ...

Financial scams targeting seniors are exploding, with both the number of victims and dollar amount of losses doubling over the last four years, writes Rolland Johannsen, of Capital Performance Group.

SBI recently advised customers against the “jumped deposit scam”, where fraudsters deliberately transfer a small amount of ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. — The Washington Attorney General's Office (AGO) issued a warning about potential scams involving charities requesting donations via smartphone tap-to-pay features. During the 2024 ...

Bitcoin Depot has finally launched a new rule requiring ID checks for all transactions. The company introduced the new identity check to prevent crypto ATM fraud and improve its compliance program.

Beware of Fake Payment Requests – Here’s How Scammers Are Stealing Your Money With the rise in digital payments, UPI frauds have also surged, and the latest trick used by scammers is Pull Transaction ...

The victims were led to the Arizona convenience store by an increasingly familiar scam: Crooks had tricked them into believing they were in legal trouble, their bank accounts were hacked or that they ...

Fraud detection is a high-stakes game of cat and mouse, with retail businesses continually adapting to outsmart increasingly sophisticated fraudsters. As ecommerce losses from online payment fraud ...

Retail has spent the last decade perfecting frictionless commerce through one-click checkouts, instant refunds and no-questions-asked returns. But the same systems designed to remove doubt and delay ...

A cryptocurrency investor has fallen victim to a phishing scam, losing $3.05 million in Tether (USDT) after unknowingly signing a malicious blockchain transaction. A crypto investor lost $3.05 million ...

Underworld fraud has undergone its own version of the platform economy. What was once driven by technically sophisticated ...