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TOLEDO, Ohio — The University of Toledo Police Department issued a warning Tuesday about a phone scam targeting families.The scammers are using spoofed phone numbers to pose as police officers, UTPD said. A spoofed…

Real Estate By Mary K. Jacob Published Sep. 18, 2023, 4:01 p.m. ET Anthony Garvin, a 53-year-old Jersey City resident, was sentenced to 24 months in prison on bank fraud…

Malicious actors have stolen more than $1m in a ‘pig butchering’ cryptocurrency scam in just three months, researchers from Sophos have found. The highly sophisticated operation used a total of 14 domains and dozens of nearly identical…

San Diego State University researchers have harnessed artificial intelligence (AI) to unveil and thwart cryptocurrency giveaway scams on Twitter. The AI tool, named GiveawayScamHunter, has astonishingly identified 95,111 fraudulent…

Elon Musk has stated that his social media platform X (formerly Twitter) has no plans to launch crypto tokens in response to a post regarding questionable X and Twitter-based digital currencies on Saturday, Aug. 5.In response to a post…

Attempted fraudulent property transactions should have owners on high alert Property owned by Troy Hall of Gilbert, Ariz., sits alongside Florida Road…

On July 18, Eddy Alexandre, the CEO of EminiFX, a cryptocurrency and forex trading platform, was sentenced to nine years in prison by United States District Judge John P. Cronan.  Alexandre was found guilty of defrauding over 25,000…

A resident of Clive has lost thousands of dollar in a cryptocurrency scam, prompting the Clive Police Department to warn residents to be vigilant when using Bitcoin ATMs.The scammer posed as a Polk County sheriff's deputy and convinced…

The IRS is warning taxpayers about a new scam through the mail that tries to trick people into believing they are owed a refund. The scam involves a letter in a cardboard envelope. The letter has an IRS masthead and wording about…

In an era when investment scams tend toward the exotic — crypto-currencies, wonder drugs, cannabis — Oregon residents Robert D. Christensen and Anthony Matic are accused of running an operation that was decidedly low–tech.Christensen, a…