Consumer investigator Brian Roche explained that scammers often recycle their schemes after a period of inactivity. Sign up for our Newsletters In this version of the scam, victims receive a check for ...

Check fraud is rising even as the number of checks in circulation is declining. If you're still sending them in the mail, it ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image Credit: Shutterstock. An Omaha college honors student lost nearly $5,000 after responding to an online work-from-home job ...

The FTC says scammers are posing as parents in need of childcare, sending fake checks and asking providers to return "overpayments" before the checks bounce. The Federal Trade Commission is warning ...

Welcome back to the fourth installment of our “Scam Likely” series. Today, we turn to an old-school scam that has made a huge comeback: mail theft and check fraud. You have a business client that is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An Independence woman received a letter in the mail, claiming she won a sweepstakes. But she paused when it asked her to deposit a ...

Listen, when I share scam alerts on here, I'm not trying to insult your intelligence. I try to share the scams that don't immediately scream scam, the ones that people could reasonably fall for. So I ...