The Nevada County Sheriff’s Office (NCSO) would like to remind residents to stay on heightened alert when contacted via phone, email, or social media from any unfamiliar person or entity. Scammers are ...

Trust your gut. Get a German Shepherd. And set a pair of very large men’s work boots outside your front door. That’s the advice Dr. Ann Burgess, the focus of the 2024 three-part Hulu docuseries, ...

Romance scammers have allegedly been using the photos and likeness of a California fitness trainer to make convincing catfish profiles to cajole unsuspecting single women across the world into forking ...

Spokeo explains how catfishing + phishing leads to catphishing, which happens when the grift goes from messing with your heart to messing with your identity, and maybe even your bank account.

A Black woman’s corporate catfishing experiment is being transformed into a docuseries exposing the harsh realities of Black life in corporate America. A Black woman who posed as a white woman on ...

In "Scam Artist," the fifth episode of Peacock's The Paper, a local detective briefs the Toledo Truth Teller staff about a catfishing scam that's preying on local dating app users. Ned (Domhnall ...