WASHINGTON, Sept 29 (Reuters) - US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is set to announce a 20% cut in the number of positions for ...

Complaints related to law enforcement or government impersonation scams soared between January 2025 and July 2026, according to the FBI. The scams cost victims more than $1.6 billion during that time ...

Owning your home outright may make it more attractive to property scammers. The FBI has warned about criminals impersonating ...

More than $11 billion in reported losses last year trace back to cryptocurrency investment fraud, according to the FBI’s 2025 ...

An FBI supervisory special agent explains how scammers are impersonating IC3, using AI voice cloning and fake websites to target victims.

Accounting for roughly 11 percent of the complaints is a different type of scam, which involves alleging victims did not fulfill their assigned jury duty or missed a court date, then threatening them ...

Scammers are posing as bank representatives and FBI agents to steal personal and financial information from victims across ...

Victims will have to delete the app entirely or invalidate the app's tokens in order to stop scammers from being able to read or write emails.

Fake cop scams cost victims $1.6 billion in 19 months; no real agency will call and demand payment, so hang up and verify independently.

On this episode of the Inside the FBI Podcast, we’ll discuss a new breed of government-impersonation scam in which bad actors role-play as special agents or their associates to scam people out of ...

Between January 2025 and July 2026, the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) recorded nearly 61,000 complaints related to law enforcement or government impersonation scams. These fraudulent ...