Identity Theft

The Federal Trade Commission today ratcheted up its continuing crusade against con artists who take advantage of struggling consumers with bogus work-at-home opportunities by announcing a major crackdown against nearly 100 of these scams. "Operation Empty Promises," a multi-agency law enforcement...

Unrest in the Middle East is spawning a flood of emails from scammers seeking to fool consumers into sending them money. Two scams are coming from Egypt, both variations on time-tested themes. In the first, a Mohammed Hammad, claiming to be a "consultant" to the Egyptian Past-President Muhammad...

Identity theft, non-delivery of payment or merchandise and scammers impersonating the FBI topped the list of complaints to the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) in 2010, with victims reporting hundreds of millions of dollars in losses. The IC3, a partnership between the FBI and the National...

Every change of season brings with it a new set of scams. And even for those still in a deep freeze, spring is on its way ... and so are the spring scams that are sure to follow. AARP is warning consumers about the scams of spring you can expect to see:

Missing the Department of Homeland Security's color-coded warnings lately? Probably not. But computer security company Norton, part of industry giant Symantec, has created a new "Cybercrime Index" you can browse for free to take a daily measure of what online nasties might attack you today or steal...

Ongoing problems with scams being run on Facebook -- including one that pretended be to from a state legislator -- has led to an inquiry by Connecticut's attorney general about how the social networking giant is dealing with fraud on its pages. Just days after Consumer Ally reported that a U.S....

You may have already received one of the latest improvements in credit card technology -- a card with an embedded radio frequency identification (RFID) chip. These cards use radio waves to transmit your information simply by swiping it through the air in the proximity of the reader. Unfortunately,...