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The call will be foreboding. It will seem official. And it will come with a direct order: pay up or face arrest. In reality, these calls are a scam by those impersonating local sheriff deputies by ...

WXIN/WTTV – According to the newly-formed National Task Force on Fraud and Scam Prevention, Americans are losing $158 billion a year to scams and fraud, claiming about 57,000 new victims every day. So ...

Scam calls have exploded into a nationwide problem, reaching levels that experts now describe as a crisis. Americans are bombarded daily with fake delivery updates, bank alerts, and government ...

ROCHE SHOWS US HOW WHENEVER WE CAN. FOLKS, THE EIGHT ON YOUR SIDE TEAM WANTS YOU TO SEE OR HEAR A SCAM IN ACTION SO YOU CAN RECOGNIZE IT. SO RIGHT NOW, LISTEN TO THIS VOICEMAIL SENT TO ME BY A VIEWER.

Scam phone calls have been around for years, but the tactics behind them are changing fast. UK network O2 says it now blocks about 50 million suspicious calls every month, and cybersecurity ...

Tim Parkey was sitting in the living room of his Elk home last month with his wife – who has Stage 4 lung cancer – lying in a chair beside him when his cellphone rang. An automated voice asked whether ...

KSHB 41 reporter Megan Abundis covers Kansas City, Missouri, including neighborhoods in the southern part of the city. Share your story idea with Megan. People across the Kansas City area are fed up ...

SHAH ALAM - A new phone scam tactic, known as "silent calls", is increasingly targeting Malaysians. Unlike typical scam calls, these calls appear completely silent when answered, but that silence is ...

TEAM BEGINS THE COUNTDOWN OF THE TOP FIVE SCAMS OF 2025. THESE ARE THE TOP FIVE SCAMS REPORTED TO US THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.