The text claims a recent Amazon order was recalled and links to a very real-looking (but fake) sign-in page. Recall messages create panic so you’ll ...

Winter weather isn’t the only thing sweeping across the country. As storms roll in, so do dishonest contractors promising fast, cheap repairs — and in some cases, vanishing once the check clears.

Cybersecurity firm Bitdefender said on Tuesday it had uncovered a wave of online scams using near-identical sites to the official Milano Cortina 2026 merchandise store to trick shoppers in Europe and ...

Wondering if tax relief companies are legitimate? Learn how tax resolution services work, common scam warning signs and how to protect yourself.

Beyond mistakes or nonsense, deliberately bad information being injected into AI search summaries is leading people down ...

TPG’s ombudsman investigates a recent spate of myserious smoking fees caused by faulty smoke sensors in hotel rooms.

There are reports that a legitimate Microsoft email address—which Microsoft explicitly says customers should add to their allow list—is delivering scam spam. According to an Ars reader, the address on ...

Chen Zhi faces an indictment in federal court in Brooklyn on charges of swindling millions of dollars from Americans as part of a global cryptocurrency scam. By Santul Nerkar A man who U.S. federal ...

Whether posing as banks or toll agencies, scam text messages are on the rise. A new Consumer Reports Cyber Readiness Report found text scam attempts increased by 50% and are growing fastest among Gen ...

A new phishing campaign is exploiting a visual trick that is easy to miss and hard to unsee once you know it. Attackers are using the domain rnicrosoft.com to impersonate Microsoft and steal login ...

A new scheme seeks to convince individuals that their Social Security numbers may be suspended due to criminal activities, the Office of the Inspector General for the Social Security Administration ...

Meta projected that 10% of its overall sales in 2024, or about $16 billion, came from running online ads for scams and banned goods, according to a Thursday report from Reuters. That included ads for ...