lottery scams

Fake check scams are nothing new. In fact, they remain one of the most common types of fraud, so two consumer advocacy groups have joined forces to help educate Americans on how to avoid being taken in by this old yet effective con. Scams that hoodwink consumers into accepting plausible but phony...

The latest federal scam alert includes virus-laden spam claiming to be from the Automated Clearing House network; new lottery scams by Jamaican gangs; and reports of overpriced potassium iodide. The alerts by the IC3, a partnership between the FBI and the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C),...

A recent scam caller claiming a company called "Recovery Services" has an unclaimed Christmas package it wants to deliver demonstrates how creative scammers can get when trying to con you out of important personal information -- a home address, in this case. The caller, speaking from an...

If you read an email that says you've won tickets to the 2012 Olympics in London, don't be fooled. It is yet another lure by scam artists intent on getting your personal information, the Better Business Bureau warns. The BBB says the fake emails use the U.K. National Lottery logo making them look...

Complaints about bogus sweepstakes are rising at rates not seen before in Ohio, says the state's Attorney General, with senior citizens the lead target. The office received more than 900 sweepstakes complaints since January of this year, surpassing total yearly complaints for the last two years....

The 2010 World Cup is off to an exciting start, with a couple of upsets, plenty of stunt dives, and the now-iconic background buzz drone of the vuvuzela (now Twittering too). But what about Internet scams? Any big event focusing the world's eyeballs brings out the worst in web criminals. In the...