Internet fraudsters tricked more than 270 Hong Kong residents out of nearly HK$14 million (US$1.8 million) through online shopping scams in the first week of 2026, police have said. The average daily loss of HK$2 million prompted the force to issue a scam alert on Monday, urging caution among online consumers and people selling products…
Diane Reynolds said she was caught off guard when someone contacted the Maryland retiree online and said access to her computer had been blocked for safety reasons. “There was a voice message that was coming on with this that said, ‘Don’t turn your computer on, don’t turn your computer off,’” she told CBS News. Reynolds…
Americans receive tens of millions of unsolicited automated calls and texts each day, often intended to dupe them into forking over personal information or money. That’s the thrust of a new report by U.S. PIRG Education Fund, a consumer advocacy organization, which found that scam and telemarketing calls and texts have proliferated across the country,…
It looks official — a letter stamped with the U.S. Supreme Court seal, signed by Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, warning that you’re under investigation. But it’s a scam — one designed to steal money from Social Security recipients, according to the agency’s watchdog division. The fake SCOTUS letter…
The U.S. government has seized $15 billion in bitcoin from a Cambodian business conglomerate charged with running a global cryptocurrency scam. Federal prosecutors claim Chen Zhi, the founder and chairman of Prince Holding Group, oversaw a vast criminal network in Cambodia built on forced labor that extracted billions from victims in the U.S. and around…
Plano, Texas — In many ways, Tejasvi Manoj of Plano, Texas, is an average 17-year-old. “You’ve got to balance, like, all of your classes, and then you have college applications as well,” Manoj told CBS News. But she’s spending much of her senior year of high school with a different type of senior, visiting older…
Americans are losing millions of dollars every year to criminals who steal money from their bank accounts through fraudulent wire transfers. Some U.S. senators are now pressing major banks for answers about what they are doing to stop the scammers. In a letter to JP Morgan Chase, Citibank, Bank of America and Wells Fargo,…
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) – Hundreds of text messages showing up on mobile phones claiming to be from the Alaska Department of Motor Vehicles are the work of scammers, city and state authorities warned. The Department of Public Safety and the Anchorage Police Department both sent out warnings Thursday about what they call “smishing” scams, or…