The Family Service Agency, Community Bank of Santa Maria, and Santa Maria Police Department held a fraud awareness and prevention seminar to alert locals that scams come in all forms.

When you’re being gaslit by a scammer, it doesn’t play out like a docuseries. There’s no ominous score or dramatic reveal, but instead, a slow descent into confusion. It begins with love-bombing ...

The rise of online romance scams has reached alarming levels, as highlighted by a recent case in France. A 53-year-old woman ...

According to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center, people aged 60+ submitted more than 140,000 complaints and reported ...

There’s a strong possibility that the reason why no one really knew Corky Lee is that his work was the strongest reflection ...

Higher-order compassion is sympathy for vulnerabilities and hardships we do not share (or even grasp) but very much want to ...

It should come as a shock to no one: The 2025 Latin Grammy Awards were all about Bad Bunny. The Puerto Rican superstar won ...

Authorities are launching strike forces, freezing funds and sanctioning facilitators as pig-butchering victims face double ...

"I think Florida, once again, is very high in terms of the rankings of all states that receive the most fraudulent phone ...

Taylor Swift has been named McAfee’s 2025 Most Dangerous Celebrity as deepfake scams surge online, but who else topped the ...

Scott Cole, a 63-year-old man in California, has claimed his photos and likeness have been used for multiple fraudulent social media accounts for romance scams over the past 15 years.

The scams are intricate, with fake websites and smartphone apps made to look like real investment platforms, and they often ...