Facebook's ad system has quietly become one of the most profitable engines for online fraud, turning deceptive promotions ...

Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook is blamed more often than any other site for hosting scam advertisements that have cost consumers ...

Scammers are sending fake Facebook settlement payout emails that mimic legitimate notices from the privacy settlement ...

While Facebook itself shows signs of decline, Facebook Marketplace is extremely popular with an estimated 491 million online shoppers buying something on Facebook Marketplace, according to Capital One ...

It started with a Facebook friend request and a message that felt too good to be true. Then, it quickly turned into an expensive lesson in online deception. The woman this happened to in Jensen Beach, ...

Scammers are increasingly impersonating trusted government agencies to target seniors with "money protection" schemes. These scams often involve lies about compromised accounts or criminal activity ...

Whether it’s a phishing email, fake phone call or long-term ploy to steal your money, scams aren’t going away. And they’re costly: The FTC reports that consumers say they lost upwards of $12.5 billion ...

Adults aged 60 and older were more likely to report extraordinarily high losses. An 18-year-old consumer in Michigan lost $4,800 this summer to a 'transfer it to protect it' scam after receiving an ...

In the past 12 months, 57 percent of adults worldwide experienced a scam and 23 percent lost money. Shopping scams affected 54 percent of victims, while investment scams and unexpected money scams ...