Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CAMBRIDGE − Ohio recorded $154.1 million lost to fraud in 2023, according to 61,303 reports made to the Federal Trade Commission.

You probably know by now not to pick up or respond to the barrage of communication from numbers you don't recognize—this gets easier as smartphones roll out more robust scam detection and spam ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - The Honolulu Police Department is warning the public about a recent rise in reports of a sneaky phone scam tactic. Caller ID spoofing is a type of scam where fraudsters mask ...

DENVER (KDVR) — The Colorado State University Police Department is warning community members of calls spoofing the CSU 491 prefix and pretending to be immigration authorities. Spoofing refers to ...

Most people know to hang up on con artists supposedly calling from the power company or the IRS, demanding money. The problem is, there's little the police can do — even when the scammers go so far as ...

MOUNT OLIVE — Police are sounding an alarm about scammers who are "spoofing" caller ID on residents' phones with calls appearing to come from the local police department. The callers, pretending to be ...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently issued its "Top Scams of 2024" update, and the results aren't promising. Consumers lost about $1.9 billion to fraud through phone calls, texts or emails ...

This year, we will see 40 billion robo calls made in the United States and many are spoofing calls that cost people money. criminals thru caller ID block out the location of where they're calling from ...

The threat is simple: with vendors offering web services to "spoof Caller-ID," the legitimacy of Caller-ID is destroyed. The Caller-ID topic has the lamp burning in our offices. During the next couple ...