Adults age 60 and older are more likely to report losses of $100,000 or more due to financial fraud, according to the Federal Trade Commission. Those incidents account for 68% of the $2.4 billion in ...

Seniors have been consistently targeted by a wide range of scams. New data from the Federal Trade Commission show that reported financial fraud losses among older Americans increased sharply in 2024, ...

One disturbing scam involves crooks who impersonate officials to convince consumers that they must withdraw money from accounts to protect it.

Social media is awash in promises that a few clicks can erase years of financial mistakes, but the latest viral "credit score hack" comes with a criminal warning label. Federal regulators say a ...

Older Americans continued to lose billions of dollars to fraud in 2024, with scams increasingly exploiting trust, urgency and new technologies. The Federal Trade Commission said impostor scams, ...