To avoid becoming a victim of a charity scam, you should verify the authenticity of any charities you donate to. Also, don't let anyone pressure you into donating if you don't want to. The FTC ...

It was hard to believe that something we can’t even touch is a currency and works the same. However, later on, the entire world not only accepted it but started trading it as well. Yes, we’re talking ...

Homeowners across the U.S. are being targeted in a sophisticated scam in which callers pose as mortgage lenders to defraud people out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, the Federal ...

When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years ...

Scams or scam centers are not uncommon in Southeast Asia. In recent years, investigators say transnational crime organizations have exploited technological advances and the civil war in Myanmar to ...

QUINCY – My turn to receive the latest fraudulent "smishing" scam arrived at 9:27 a.m. Sunday ... that would carry a huge penalty if it wasn't paid today. I ignored it because it should have ...

A year later, "Brad" broke the news that he needed urgent surgery to treat kidney cancer but didn't have any money for the life-saving operation because his bank accounts had been frozen by his ex ...

Beware: texts are part of the latest “smishing” scam, according to the Massachusetts Department of Transportation. The texts say that the recipient owes money for EZ pass tolls and include a ...

That statement echoes a similar comment EW received upon reports of another Pitt-related scam in September ... "But I'm not used to social media, and I didn't really understand what was happening ...

Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review. In “Open Socrates,” the scholar Agnes Callard argues that the ancient Greek ...