NAPERVILLE, Ill. (WLS) -- Spoof phone calls where the caller ID has the name of a company, but is associated with a fake number, is a common scam. People now need to be on the lookout for spoof calls ...

Employees who are part of a multi-million dollar moving scam in Chicago now face federal prison time. The move marks the latest development in a scam we first warned you about four years ago. Stream ...

LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY)– A cleaning company offers private cleaning contractors in Acadiana, but scammers are registering on the site as if they are real cleaners. The website connects cleaners and ...

Common moving scams include weight bumping and lowball estimates. Some or all of the mortgage lenders featured on our site are advertising partners of NerdWallet, but this does not influence our ...

Meta internally projected late last year that it would earn about 10% of its overall annual revenue – or $16 billion – from running advertising for scams and banned goods, internal company documents ...

Aleksey Madan never thought the day would come. This week he received a $140,000 check in the mail from Massachusetts officials. That was the full amount Madan had lost after falling for a ...

Take it from me: Moving homes is a massive pain. As someone who's done it many times over the last few years, moving is already draining and unpleasant, and the absolute last thing you'll want to ...

When most people imagine online scams, they think of faceless texts and bot calls. But for survivors of massive scam compounds in Myanmar, the reality is much darker. Across Southeast Asia, an ...

Gaming Industry Days after launching their first indie game, everyone responsible for publishing it was laid off: 'We had a Slack channel with everyone in it, and then you see them leaving one by one' ...

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