Americans reported losing $3.5 billion to imposter scams in 2025, making it the single largest fraud category tracked by the Federal Trade Commission. The costliest versions of these scams often begin ...

Scam calls are smarter and more frequent than ever, but one targeted strategy can keep most of them from ever reaching you.

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While fraud is nothing new, today's scams are constantly evolving. The latest advances in technology, like artificial intelligence (AI), make these schemes even harder to spot. The Federal Trade ...

Truecaller is turning scam defense into a shared task, giving relatives tools to manage protection settings and step into suspected fraud calls. Phone scam defenses usually depend on the person ...

Scammers can use new AI technology to mimic the voice of someone you know and create a phone call or voicemail recording. That “voice cloning” technology has recently advanced, and anyone with the ...

Google is introducing a new Android security feature that will detect and flag phone calls in which scammers use artificial intelligence to impersonate a user's personal contacts. Called "fake call ...

Clallam County reports four instances just this week ...

A phone call telling you to return a new phone may be a scam. The scammer simply keeps your phone instead of replacing it. Hang up on such calls and contact the carrier directly. The next time you ...

Tax relief phone call scams are common year-round, and criminals use them to get money and commit identity theft. There is an IRS tax debt compromise option, however, that could allow you to settle ...

Tech pro ThioJoe breaks down the ClickFix scam and how it tricked unsuspecting PC users into compromising their systems.