Scammers are impersonating deputy sheriffs and police officers, using the names of actual officers, DA John T. Adams says.

This tax season, scam callers are mentioning taxes or claiming to be the IRS in aggressive efforts to try to steal your identity, experts say.

Receiving a phone call from an unknown number can certainly catch you by surprise—especially when the person on the other end claims to be with law enforcement. If that weren’t concerning enough, many ...

The Cape Elizabeth Police Department is warning residents about a phone scam in which callers falsely identified themselves as department officials. The scammers claimed to be Chief Paul Fenton and ...

The costs of cybercrimes are more than financial; the scams are taking a far darker turn thanks to AI.

A troubling message landed in our inbox, and it reveals a scam that many people have never seen. Before we break it down, here is an email Gary from Palmetto, Florida, sent us: "This just happened to ...

If you have a traffic citation, there’s a way to look it up online. But now scammers are using these online databases to poach your personal information and trick you into giving them your hard-earned ...

Fake Robinhood security texts about external wallet links go out in bulk to random phone numbers, not indicating actual ...

The Better Business Bureau Serving Connecticut says it recently fielded about two-dozen reports to its Scam Tracker site about tax scam calls.

Officials in Kerr County, Texas, report that families of flooding victims are being targeted by phone scammers demanding money for their missing children. Local officials say scam calls are hindering ...