Three years after a California teen killed himself as a result of being “sextorted” online, authorities have arrested four men in Ivory Coast for their roles in an international scheme that targeted ...

Scams are usually financial crimes, but they’re almost always about more than money. When a grifter tricks somebody into pre-paying a tax for a fake lottery win, or writing a check to a bogus charity, ...

Over the past decade, organized crime gangs working out of Southeast Asia have scammed people out of billions of dollars. Operating giant scam compounds—where experts estimate around 200,000 victims ...

(KRON) — The Alameda Police Department is warning residents about a rise in sextortion scams. The scam, according to police, begins with scammers reaching out to victims through social media or dating ...