Scammers who pour dirty oil in coolant tanks and over engines and exhausts have been targeting private vehicle sellers in the ...

By Kim Faura, Joint Managing Director at Gumtree The circular economy is often talked about in relation to tackling climate change, but in 2025 it has become an economic solution too. The second-hand ...

The cassette tape is making a comeback with prices of recent albums sold in the retro format as much as quadrupling in value ...

Online scammers are becoming increasingly creative as they look to cheat time-poor online shoppers out of cash in the lead-up ...

Meta internally projected late last year that it would earn about 10% of its overall annual revenue – or $16 billion – from running advertising for scams and banned goods, internal company documents ...

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.

Americans age 60 and older have lost more than $745 million to scams in the first three months of 2025, nearly $200 million more than at the same point last year, according to the Federal Trade ...

Today, for free, a scammer can run a text draft through artificial intelligence and clean it up so well that a high school grammar teacher would be proud. MICHAEL MULVEY / 173789 Reader R.V. Baugus of ...

Amazon's Prime Day is back, but big shopping events like Prime Day can often be prime time for scammers. Now around Prime Day last year, Amazon says its customers reported an increase in impersonation ...

Lately, I’ve had way too many calls on my shows from people who have lost thousands (sometimes hundreds of thousands) to scams. These are so cleverly evil, it’s like Ocean’s Eleven but starring a dude ...

To avoid scams, always rely on the phone number on the back of your card or visit your bank branch in person. If you think a scammer is targeting you, report it to the Federal Trade Commission.To ...

Be careful out there. Credit: Ian Moore / Mashable Composite; krblokhin / Jeffrey Coolidge / Photodisc / Glow Images / Glowimages / Isaac Lee / iStock / Getty / Indeed If you're concerned about scams ...