Authorities are working to crack down on an impostor phone scam in which the caller pretends to be a DEA agent and then tries to steal the victim's money -- often by having them purchase gift cards.

Police have urged the public to keep wary of suspicious phone messages, even from known numbers, after residents reported ...

Thousands of people are bilked every year by criminals who enter the lives of their victims through their telephones. AARP once found that about half of all mobile calls were fraudulent, and that the ...

If you've gotten a call from the Massachusetts State Police's “Internet Crime Complaint Center," asking you information about your identity, it's a scam. Do you know why? The Massachusetts State ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration is warning the public about the latest phone scam impersonating their office and informing people that the department is ...

GLOUCESTER, Va. — While many hunkered down or ventured out into the freshly fallen snow in the aftermath of Wednesday evening's snowstorm, the Gloucester County Sheriff's Office warned residents to ...

The scam involves phone calls from fraudsters (vishing), who cleverly manipulate the public into revealing sensitive banking information or convince consumers to use a link that will ultimately ...

In both cases, the scams started when the victims got fraudulent pop-up warning messages on their computers, according to ...