Alex Fitzpatrick/Axios Americans reported losing over $12.5 billion to various forms of fraud last year, per new FTC data — up a staggering 25% from 2023. Why it matters: The spike suggests fraudsters ...

State officials are warning Americans not to respond to a surge of scam road toll collection texts. The texts impersonating ...

New data from the Federal Trade Commission shows money lost to fraud increased by billions of dollars last year.

The FTC reports a record $12.5 billion lost to scams in 2024, with investment fraud, job scams, and debt relief fraud topping ...

Both consumers and banks reported that the rate of fraud and scams has steadied, according to FinCEN and FTC data, but the ...

Christopher Mufarrige, the newly-appointed Director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), ...

You think it's a call from the doctor's office or your child’s school. So, you stop what you're doing and answer it -- only to get aggravated and find out it's a bogus debt reduction offer, or better ...

An annual report issued by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released this week has revealed the top scams and losses ...

A new FTC report reveals a sharp rise in fraud losses, with 2.6 million consumers reporting scams in 2024. With financial ...

The Federal Trade Commission is “moving ahead” with its antitrust investigation on Microsoft that was opened during the ...

U.S. stock futures are ticking lower after indexes mostly rebounded yesterday, wholesale pricing data is due today, and Intel ...

The agency is examining allegations that Microsoft is potentially abusing its market power, including its Azure cloud service.