"I don't use Facebook. I don't even have an email. How could scammers possibly know anything about me?" That's the question I hear from people over 60 all the time. If you assume that by staying off ...

Take a moment to think about your day: How many things did you do online? Perhaps you made a call or two via WhatsApp. You sent at least one WhatsApp text. You might have looked up a restaurant, ...

Now you can’t even trust the people that are supposed to protect you, with a new report finding that scammers are impersonating cyber crimes special agents to collect information from unsuspecting ...

Scammers now need just three seconds of audio to clone a loved one's voice. Here is the simple code word strategy that stops them cold.

In Greek mythology, the Sirens were creatures whose irresistible song lured sailors to their doom. Odysseus, the hero of "The Odyssey," wanted to hear that famous song. But he knew it was dangerous.

A comparison of an original and deepfake video of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. We are in no way suggesting that Mark Zuckerberg is a deepfake scammer. Credit: Elyse Samuels/The Washington Post via ...

Black Friday and Cyber Monday are the biggest shopping days of the year — and prime season for scams. Now in 2025 scammers are more emboldened than ever, thanks to AI. According to research from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Many of the scams I write about are increasingly high-tech, such as those powered by Artificial Intelligence or that ask for ...

It began when I looked back on the email thread and realized the person had been writing “Dear Jack” the whole time, which is ...