Last year, scammers stole more than $16.6 billion from more than 850,000 Americans who filed complaints with the FBI. These were everyday folks who received emails that looked identical to messages ...

Yarilet Perez is an experienced multimedia journalist and fact-checker with a Master of Science in Journalism. She has worked in multiple cities covering breaking news, politics, education, and more.

Wire transfers using your bank or wire services, like Western Union, PayPal, and Wise, are fast, final, and widely trusted – which is exactly why scammers love them. Over the past few years, I’ve seen ...

Strong demand from buyers and sellers could turn fraud prevention into a profit center for real estate transaction companies Could fraud protection be another profit center for title and mortgage ...

The court clarified a 6-5 circuit split and expanded the prosecutorial reach of the wire fraud statute, 18 U.S.C. Section 1343, leaving future fraudulent-inducement cases to turn on that statute’s ...

A Q1 2026 FundingShield report found 43.72% of transactions in a $106.7 billion portfolio had wire or title fraud risks, with CPL discrepancies in 43.49% of deals. Disconnected systems and manual data ...

Two former Maryland police officers were found guilty of fraud and arson by a federal jury, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the District of Maryland. Former Fairmount Heights Police officer ...