A cybercriminal who used a fake phone tower hidden in a suitcase to send thousands of scam texts to commuters has been jailed for 24 weeks. Kong Ji Chen, 31, was caught at Victoria station after a ...

The U.S. government has seized $15 billion in bitcoin from a Cambodian business conglomerate charged with running a global cryptocurrency scam. Federal prosecutors claim Chen Zhi, the founder and ...

South Korea’s efforts are part of a widening international crackdown on criminal groups running online fraud schemes from Southeast Asia. By John Yoon and Francesca Regalado Reporting from Seoul South ...

Prices go up. Population goes up. And to complete this unhappy trinity, banking scams go up. A new report from BioCatch, a behavioral biometrics company specializing in financial crime prevention, ...

Officials in the US and UK have taken sweeping action against “one of the largest investment fraud operations in history,” confiscating a historic amount of funds in the process. On Tuesday, officials ...

This is the scam that doesn't end. Users have continued to report getting texts from the "DMV" and "MVC" warning them of outstanding traffic tickets and threatening that they could face vehicle ...

The victims were led to the Arizona convenience store by an increasingly familiar scam: Crooks had tricked them into believing they were in legal trouble, their bank accounts were hacked or that they ...

It starts with a ping. You’re in the middle of your day when a text pops up that there’s a problem with your package delivery, or a missed toll payment. These messages look very convincing, but ...

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Identity thieves have found a new way to steal consumers’ financial information: By calling with an “update” on a loan they never applied for. The con starts with a robocall from a fictitious ...

A Long Island DMV supervisor scammed the system by having her sister don disguises to take commercial license exams for unqualified wanna-be truck drivers, prosecutors said Thursday. Department of ...