Scammers are getting faster, smarter, and more ruthless—and thanks to AI, 2026 may be their most profitable year yet. Here's ...

Pew Research Center conducted this study to understand Americans’ experiences with and views of online scams and attacks. For this analysis, we surveyed 9,397 adults from April 14 to 20, 2025.

Online scams are evolving fast, but the tricks behind them are surprisingly predictable once you know what to look for. I ...

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Fraud is becoming even bigger business as it gets more sophisticated and technologically involved. This is about spam emails, but also spam texts and spam voice messages manipulated by artificial ...

At the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley, the exhibits chart how technology got to where it is today. And there could be no better guide to this history than Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple ...

From phishing emails to fake job offers, scammers don’t wait for midterms—new students are being targeted from day one. Here's how to stay one step ahead. I review privacy tools like hardware security ...

With over a dozen credit cards and millions of credit card points racked up, Nancy Jiang condenses the complex world of card-churning for maximum rewards with minimum effort. Her work has been ...

A new website is aiming to help Kentuckians identify and report scams.The "Team Kentucky Stop Scams" website will give Kentucky residents tools to recover money if they are a victim of a scam.The site ...

If you're concerned about scams in 2025, start by monitoring your texts. Many of the most common internet scams of the year start with a text message. Of course, scams are everywhere because the ...