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Trolling for victims online “is like throwing a fishing line,” said Special Agent Christine Beining, a veteran financial fraud investigator in the FBI’s Houston Division who has seen a substantial…

“I felt like such a fool,” says Friedman, who ended up not losing money to the scammer, thanks to her bank’s fraud prevention team. Stop, think and follow the Take…

The fraud artist may contact you via phone and will ask you the opportunities in such investments. Here’s how to tell a real text message from a scam-even if the…

In an initial wave of scam posts, @bitcoin, @ripple, @coindesk, @coinbase and @binance were hacked with the same message: “We have partnered with CryptoForHealth and are giving back 5000 BTC…

The following resources provide information on fraud. This program was meant to scare the target into thinking they were infected with something really dangerous and to allow the scammer to…

Consumer Fraud Reporting has an alphabetized list of names that scam artists use in money transfer and bank account frauds. A fraudulent transfer usually is made without any verbal or…

Manifesto: a scam email was reportedly received by private individuals. Scammers operating in this space often use aggressive marketing tactics to lure unsuspecting individuals into opening trading accounts. Stay alert…

This internet scam works by seeding an urgent message or email to a grandparent pretending to be a grandchild in need of financial help. What to expect: Email pretending to…

Cybercriminals like to create scam websites and online scams so that they can trick users into willingly handing over information or money. Typically, a representative of a binary options website…

It included tricks like spoon-bending and using his psychic powers to find water, and skeptic magician James Randi was determined to expose him as a fraud. While the term PC…