Government impersonation scams are among the most damaging forms of fraud targeting Americans today. A Southern California couple’s recent ordeal, which ended with them losing $850,000, shows just how ...

Citing official figures, the investigating agency said Americans lost nearly $2.1 billion to tech-support scams last year alone. In Rhode Island, residents reportedly lost at least $5.7 million.

AI-enabled crime was included in the FBI Internet Crime Report for the first time. The FBI said it received 22,364 complaints from people who lost a total of $893 million to AI-enabled scams. Overall, ...

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New FBI data shows Americans lost more than $20 billon to cryptocurrency and other online scams in 2025, a 26% increase year-over-year. The majority of those losses, according to the FBI report, came ...

The FBI recently released its annual report on internet crime and found that cryptocurrency-related scams accounted for the most reported losses among all scam categories last year. The Internet Crime ...

The FBI is sounding the alarm on a fast-growing fraud trend involving cryptocurrency kiosks, commonly known as crypto ATMs, ...

The FBI says Americans have lost over $388 million last year to scams using cryptocurrency kiosks, also known as crypto ATMs or Bitcoin ATMs. Cryptocurrency kiosks are physical, standalone electronic ...