The FBI issues a warning to all smartphone users that a new scam uses QR codes in unsolicited packages to steal your personal ...

August 17, 2025 – Tulare County Sheriff's Office officials report that Sheriff Boudreaux wants to make the public aware of ...

This is a scam. Utility Scam – The caller claims to be a representative of a local utility provider. In some cases, the scammer has the victim’s correct account number.

Officials with the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office are warning the public of a current telephone scam in which suspects are ...

The FTC reports that the percentage of imposter scams that start with a phone call has decreased from 67 percent in 2020 to 32 percent in 2023. Text messages and email are becoming a preferred ...

Phone scams in general are on the rise, with the number of reported scams nearly doubling between 2019 and 2020, according to the latest numbers from the Federal Trade Commission.

Be Aware of the Latest Threats Like any other fraud, phone scams evolve and change out of necessity once the public gets wise to the scam. This means there's always a new scam on the horizon or an ...

It pays to keep up on the latest dirty phone tricks and how to avoid them. Here are some of today’s top scams, as reported by the Federal Trade Commission and other experts. COVID-19-related scams ...

The Federal Trade Commission estimates that over 25 million Americans lose in excess of $2.5 billion to fraud each year, and phone scams, which account for a big chunk of that, have been ...