Scam watchdog says bulk extortion emails claiming hacked pictures and videos is a 'fictional threat'

A new bulk extortion email campaign threatening to reveal sensitive images and videos of Australians is best ignored, says the National Anti-Scam Centre. Read More

Scammers sending pictures of your home in scary new scam

(WJAR) — There's a scary new twist on a dangerous scam we warned you about a few weeks ago involving explicit pictures. The scam is called sextortion. Bentley University professor and creator of ... Read More

BBB explains how scammers use threats to steal your money

Don’t give in and pay the money you don’t owe, otherwise, they’ll call back for more. In another version of the scam ... to cease contact, use these templates on Consumer.gov. Read More

Consumer Alert: Scammers target Bills Mafia on social media

It appears the scammers are scouring the players’ fan pages, then using fake Bills Facebook pages to reach out to fans. Often scammers want you to talk to them on apps like Viber and Telegram ... Read More

BBB Scam Alert: Fraudulent QR codes continue to be used in a variety of scams

The use and consumer familiarity with QR ... multiplying the amount of money lost. • Cryptocurrency wallets and romance scams. The rise of cryptocurrencies has altered traditional thinking ... Read More

Coinstar may be the new way scammers want to get paid

First, scammers used MoneyGram ... and certainly a lot of money. Take an Identity Theft Quiz. Get matched with an Authorized Partner. Mark Huffman has been a consumer news reporter for ... Read More

Seaside police warn of cryptocurrency extortion scam

Seaside Police are warning the public of reports of extortion scams. According to police, scammers are emailing victims demanding money in cryptocurrency and claiming to have personal information ... Read More

CONSUMER FIRST ALERT: Real estate scammers selling other people’s property

Realtors and title companies are on high alert and you should be too. In this Consumer ... few years. Scammers posing as the owner and selling property they don’t own. ABC News shared the ... Read More

‘It came from prison’ – Scammers try to extort R50k from family of KZN snowstorm victim

The skills of an experienced private investigator stopped a family from falling for a R50 000 extortion scam looking to prey ... “Before I could post [an alert on Facebook], some fools got ... Read More

Threat Status

An Israeli attack on Iran damaged facilities at a secretive military base southeast of the Iranian capital that experts in the past have linked to Tehran's onetime nuclear weapons program and at ... Read More

Your Money

The normally unstoppable force of two veteran money reporters hit the immovable object of wretched industry conditions. Living in Brooklyn didn’t help. A call from a debt collector may add to ... Read More

Money blog: UK economy could 'crumble' if chancellor changes rules

Read this and the rest of today's money news below - and watch the latest episode ... The measure we currently use excludes the Bank of England, which seemed, a few years ago, to be a sensible ... Read More