Older adults are losing more money to romance scams than any other age group, and the payment method scammers prefer keeps ...

Americans who fall for romance scams built around fake cryptocurrency investments lose an average of $121,926 each, a figure ...

On first glance, scammy dating profiles have nothing but green flags. They're verified accounts, often posing as handsome men in their 40s. Their photos tell the story of a laid-back, yet exciting ...

Carlos Barragán wrote “The Yahoo Boys” after investigating a fraud perpetrated on his mother.

Imposter scams were the top consumer complaint for the ninth year in a row, according to a recent report from the Federal Trade Commission. During 2025, the agency received more than 1 million reports ...

According to the FTC, fraud losses hit $15.9 billion in 2025. Imposter scams led in sheer number of reports, but investment scams caused the steepest financial damage. This voice experience is ...

A photo of the landing page for myspeicaldates.com, one of two Cyprus-based websites and five U.S. banks being sued by a dementia patient who was the victim of a romance scam that wiped out his life ...

Charles Scharf, chief executive officer of Wells Fargo & Co., right, arrives for a meeting at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 13, 2025. Romance scams put banks in a bad spot, as our ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A woman typing on a smartphone. Sebastian Gollnow/dpa It began with a simple "Hello" on the social media platform Threads. The ...

While fraud is nothing new, today's scams are constantly evolving. The latest advances in technology, like artificial intelligence (AI), make these schemes even harder to spot. The Federal Trade ...