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The firm found 4,574 unique scams perpetuated by 1,386 accounts and used machine learning to distinguish the scam posts from those by legitimate users calling out the scammers. The details…

In most states, the act of fraud can be classified as either a civil or a criminal wrong. Tricking competitors into making the wrong move. Tricking people who actually produce…

Scam is sometimes used in phrases that refer to the medium the scammer uses for the scheme, such as email scam or phone scam. Phones offer a way to automatically…

During a webinar on research fraud, Smith reported that she insisted "that it is not a problem of bad apples but bad barrels if not of rotten forests or orchards."…

But there is still scope for organised criminal attack, with areas such as benefit fraud and art theft often the focus of the fraudster's attention. Even a federal law that's…

Here’s another Craigslist rental scam e-mail I received. If a business is ever convicted of any of these offenses, it could be fined as much as $11,000, and its e-mail…

Another subset of this is the hacked account scam. If you are signing in using a third-party, such as Google or Microsoft, we will store your basic third-party profile information…

Chang Yu “Andy” He, 55, of Monterey Park, the owner of Fair Price Immigration Service, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit marriage fraud. In 2007, The New…

Read Investor Alert: Investment Newsletters Used as Tools for Fraud. Read Investor Alert: Social Media and Investing -- Stock Rumors. The SEC’s Office of Investor Education and Advocacy is issuing…

According to the latest data from the Federal Trade Commission, from Q1-Q3 in 2022 there have been nearly 80 thousand individual investors who have reported being a victim of investment-related…