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An Instagram account with close to 14 million followers was taken down by the social media company for perpetuating misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic.

Barbara Corcoran's bookkeeper was tricked into wiring nearly $400,000 to fraudsters earlier this week. It all came down to a small change in an email address.

A Texas school district has revealed it was recently tricked into handing over more than $2 million in an email phishing scam. The money was transferred to the perpetrator in three separate transactions in November 2019, according to reports, and the FBI is now investigating the incident.

Many Free Match.com users decided to buy a subscription to read a message -- only to realize that message was from a scammer. The FTC is claiming that the company knew those accounts were scams, but let them send messages exclusively to free-tier members to get new subscriptions.

More than 280 alleged email scammers have been arrested in a global effort to crack down on the problem. The FBI said the alleged cybercriminals — 74 of them based in the U.S. — used a variety of methods to trick both individuals and businesses into sending cash via wire transfers.

Scammers are posing as employees of Expedia to take money from unknowing consumers, according to a press release. Expedia Group and the Better Business Bureau (BBB) have teamed up to warn consumers of these scams that have been reported within the last several days.

Can you spot a GoFundMe scam? While the fundraising platform says scams make up less than a tenth of one percent of campaigns, some people try to take advantage of others' charity -- like a case last year that made national news. Here's how to spot potential GoFundMe scams before donating to campaigns.

Chinese students living in the United States managed to scam Apple out of nearly $1 million by exchanging counterfeit iPhones for real ones. Apple's replacement policy allowed the scammers to trade-in devices that didn't start up for new phones, which were then sold for a profit in China.

Chasing down illegal robocall operators must feel like a game of whack-a-mole for the FTC, but the fight goes on. The commission recently announced it had forced the closure of four separate operations responsible for bombarding people across the United States with billions of scam calls.

Given the rising incidents of phishing attacks, Google created a quiz to help internet users understand phishing and learn how to avoid these emails to avoid falling victim. The quiz will teach users how to identify a sophisticated phishing email and offer some tips to help users secure their accounts.

People bought Canary devices because they offered free monitoring services. Then the company put those features behind a paywall and asked owners for $10 per month. That's the accusation leveled against the home security startup in a class action lawsuit filed last week.

What's the world coming to when you can no longer trust caller ID? Almost half of all phone calls in the U.S. could be scams by next year, according to a warning report put out by a phone provider. So if you feel that you're constantly being harangued by nuisance calls, you're certainly not alone.

A cheap Steam game called Abstractism appeared to be infecting users' computers with a program that mines cryptocurrency. Valve has since removed it from Steam and banned the developer for shipping unauthorized code and intentionally tricking players into buying fake in-game items.

The FBI and counterpart agencies around the world have arrested more than 70 people and recovered more than $16 million in a crackdown on phishing emails. The scam run by this group targeted companies and tricked employees into handing over financial details or sending money to fraudulent accounts.

Facebook scammers are setting up fake accounts in the name of Mark Zuckerberg and using them to trick users into handing over cash. The deceit is a variation on the once-popular advance-fee email scam that gets people to wire small sums of money in expectation of receiving a larger sum.

Microsoft acknowledges that tech support scams are on the rise, costing unsuspecting consumers an average of $200 to $400 per incident, and there's little that Windows Defender can do to protect you. The best defense is education and knowing if you've been targeted by scammers.

Phone scammers purporting to be from a Chinese consulate office are tricking people across the U.S. into handing over large sums of money. Since December of last year, 21 members of the Chinese community in New York City alone have lost a total of $2.5 million, according to the New York Police Department.

A startup promising a device to manage cryptocurrencies disappeared with more than $2 million in Ethereum after an initial coin offering.

During a Periscope livestream on Thursday, Jack Dorsey and David Gasca talk about overhauling Twitter's confusing verification system.

If you bought a used phone only to find that it couldn’t be activated, or that it had been blocked after being reported stolen or lost, then you may have fallen victim to a used phone scam.

Free stuff via Amazon may sound great, but a couple from Boston has now had enough of it. But why exactly have they been receiving goods from unknown senders?

Twitter users are being hit with a new wave of 'Nigerian Prince' scams with perpetrators using cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin to hook them in.