The Christmas season brings a surge in Netflix phishing scams targeting shoppers with fake emails. Stacey P received ...

The FBI is warning the public about an epidemic of scams draining bank accounts across the country. In a new announcement, ...

The year 2025 is almost over, and with the end of the year comes a new batch of end-of-year deadline scams, all of which ...

WhatsApp has taken down 6.8 million accounts that were “linked to criminal scam centers” targeting people online around that world, its parent company Meta said this week. The account deletions, which ...

NEW YORK — WhatsApp has taken down 6.8 million accounts that were “linked to criminal scam centers” targeting people online around that world, its parent company Meta said this week. The account ...

Scammers are working harder than ever to trick people online, but WhatsApp is hitting back in a big way. In the first half of 2025, WhatsApp removed more than 6.8 million accounts tied to global scam ...

A new WhatsApp scam called GhostPairing exploits device-linking features to hijack accounts through social engineering, without passwords, SIM swaps, or verification code theft.

A new scam dubbed GhostPairing is targeting WhatsApp users by abusing the app’s device-linking feature. The attack tricks ...

Scam accounts that impersonate brokers are proliferating, luring in prospective renters with impossibly good deals and the names and faces of the city’s top rental brokers. Photo-Illustration: Curbed ...

Nearly 10 million WhatsApp accounts are being banned every month in India, yet scams persist. The government and WhatsApp are ...