A scammer thought he had found another person to scare with a fake warrant story. Instead, the call went to a police captain.

Leesburg Mayor Kelly Burk answered a call from an unfamiliar number last week and found herself inside a jury-duty scam that ...

Don't you just love all the innovations that the advent of AI has allowed for? There's mass disinformation, the price of ...

Picture the letters flooding absentee voters’ mailboxes in official-looking envelopes from phony entities like “Voter ...

Pierogi from Scammer Payback on YouTube joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about scams and scambaiting. Why do scammers ask victims to buy gift cards? What are some of the biggest ...

The Federal Trade Commission received more than 330,000 reports of scammers impersonating businesses in 2023. Some of these scammers pretend to be major corporations like Amazon or Best Buy, the FTC ...

A Charlotte woman lost thousands of dollars after receiving a call from a scammer masquerading as a representative of her ...

In this excerpt from WIRED Book Club pick “The Yahoo Boys,” journalist Carlos Barragán traces one scammer’s journey from flop to fortune.

There's no way around it, Americans are inundated every day with nuisance and scam calls: about 50 billion of them per year, according to call-blocking app YouMail (the Federal Communications ...

Jeff Somers is a freelancer who has been writing about writing, books, personal finance, and home maintenance since 2012. When not writing, Jeff spends his free time fixing up his old house. He has ...