She went from hard times — to looking at hard time. An elderly Ohio woman apparently got so desperate for cash after being duped by an online financial scammer, she robbed a bank with a handgun ...

You may feel confident in your ability to avoid becoming a victim of cyber scams. You know what to look for, and you won’t let someone fool you. Then you receive a phone call from your son ...

On an April afternoon, Penny Kuehl checked her mailbox and found a letter from the sweepstakes company Publishers Clearing House. In it was a check for $7,800.45. Immediately, Kuehl thought her ...

The scammer who drained Laura Kowal of her $1.5 million nest egg and sent the widowed healthcare executive on a path that ended with her death in the Mississippi River, hundreds of miles from her ...

Like the old adage about finding true love goes, “There are plenty of fish in the sea!” In the digital world of cyber hacking, they’re known as “phish,” a scamming tactic used to trick ...

Journal Editorial Report: The administration brushes aside a Supreme Court decision. Images: AP/Zuma Press Composite: Mark Kelly Education Secretary Miguel Cardona recently declared that if the ...

The Ontario County Sheriff's Office is warning residents about a scam in which a person identifies themselves as a federal or law enforcement officer and demands payment. Through the scam, the ...

Criminals know the big-box retailer is your favorite store, and they use this information to swindle money out of you with these common Costco scams If you’re a bargain hunter, you probably prep ...

You open your eyes and grope for your phone. You check your inbox and discover dozens of spam emails that made it past the filter. Tapping over to Instagram, you find a request for a supposed ...