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You're sipping your morning coffee when your phone rings. It's a number you don't recognize. On the other end is someone claiming to be from your bank, asking you to "confirm a recent charge." Sound ...

Your phone buzzes. A text from an unknown number alerts you to an unpaid toll. Next, a call comes in with the name of your bank, claiming your account is compromised. Later, you see an ad for a ...

Within the past 24 hours, an average of three to five people have called the Dauphin County Sheriff’s Office saying they have ...

HARTFORD, Conn. (WFSB) - The Better Business Bureau has launched an online heatmap that lets users see scams reported across the country, including in Connecticut, where people reported losing more ...

Online scammers often take weeks to build trust before making a move, which makes their work hard to study. A research team from UC San Diego built a system that does the patient work of talking to ...

SHERIDAN — Artificial intelligence is giving scammers new ways to automate fraud, build relationships with victims and operate at a scale faster than law enforcement can investigate. That was a key ...