Four people have been arrested for alleged insurance fraud after they claimed a bear damaged their car — but it was really a person in a bear costume, according to officials in California.

Your humble phone number is more valuable than you may think. Here’s how it could fall into the wrong hands – and how you can help keep it out of the reach of fraudsters.

Your phone number is more than just a way to contact you – scammers can use it to target you with malicious messages and even exploit it to gain access to your bank account or steal corporate data

Facial recognition technology can help the platform be 'faster, more accurate and more effective' against imposters, the software giant said.

Read more: Meta to test facial recognition to deter scammers

Nigy Boy's management team was forced to put out a scam alert on Thursday as news surfaced that a promoter in the Turks and Caicos Islands, inadvertently wired thousands of US dollars to who he believed was the artiste's booking team as a deposit...

Social Security recipients will receive a bump in funds soon and scammers may try to target them.

If you take the time to talk to African scammers, you can open up a lot about them.

Samantha Armytage has hit out at 'scammers' using her name on bogus adverts. 

The email includes the potential victim’s password as evidence of a hack, but there is more than meets the eye

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How can it be so easy to fall into a romance based on text messages, internet liaisons and phone calls? An expert says scammers know exactly what their victims want to hear.

Adelaide police say two men turned up to a victim's house with an eftpos machine demanding money after earlier calling him pretending to be from the tax office. The man has told the ABC that he "knew they weren't legit".

Online scammers operating through social media and at least one crowdfunding site trick friends of a pilot who died in a Darwin plane crash into donating money for his funeral.

“Please do not fall for the fake sites.”

The COVID-19 pandemic has meant a spike in demand for puppies and an opportunity for scammers who are charging inflated prices for dogs not ready to be adopted out or with missing or bogus papers.

A Florida city made the difficult decision to fork over the cash after ransomware hijacked city computers. Everyone needs to make their own choice, but I firmly believe you should never pay the ransom.

Deepfakes, or doctored videos, have mostly been used to harm the reputations of celebrities and politicians. Now the AI-assisted technology is being used to trick companies out of big money.

Jeff Carpoff had a lot to celebrate as friends and business associates gathered at his company’s Christmas party last year.

Jeff Carpoff had a lot to celebrate as friends and business associates gathered at his company’s Christmas party last year.

There's been a spike in scam calls, emails and texts

Coronavirus stimulus checks are on their way, and scammers are on the hunt.

Business owners, the unemployed and recipients of stimulus checks are among the targets of financial thieves trying to access trillions of dollars in federal coronavirus relief.

Maria Elvira Pinto Exposto was acquitted on Tuesday of trafficking more than one kilogram of crystal methamphetamine through Kuala Lumpur International Airport in December 2014.

Families of 31 victims are mourning their loved ones after the gun rampage at Walmart in El Paso, Texas, on Saturday and the FBI now fears vulnerable relatives could be targeted by con artists.

Suzanne Parker, 71, from Bristol, told This Morning the signs that singletons should look out for, revealing that scammers often claim to be widowed with a child, and claims to be building contractors.

I was contacted regarding potential fraudulent activity on my Tesco Mastercard in early October 2019. In total, £3,700.20 of illicit transactions were refunded.

Time and again we have exposed how copycat scammers use the search engine to trick users into paying more for holiday visas, passports - you name it. Our City Editor was even caught out.

A Which? investigation found 50 discoverable profiles, pages and groups advertising stolen identities. Scammers are using Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to market stolen information.

I was contacted regarding potential fraudulent activity on my Tesco Mastercard in early October 2019. In total, £3,700.20 of illicit transactions were refunded.