Phony promises to triple your retirement savings and other wild schemes engineered by scammers can stir up all sorts of financial woes for seniors. According to a new report from the Federal Trade ...

Fraud losses reported by people 60 and older climbed to nearly $2.4 billion in 2024, quadrupling since 2020 Investment scams—often tied to social media pitches—drove the biggest losses, while phone ...

Seniors have been consistently targeted by a wide range of scams. New data from the Federal Trade Commission show that reported financial fraud losses among older Americans increased sharply in 2024, ...

A report from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) finds that seniors reported losing more than $1.9nine billion to fraud last year. The finding shows older Americans also lost more money to fraud using ...

Scam artists are using the Supreme Court’s recent Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ruling as leverage to collection personal information from consumers, according to a Federal Trade ...

(Reuters) -The U.S. Federal Trade Commission will not take consumers' fraud complaints or help them block spam calls, and it will not grant early clearance to mergers during the government shutdown, ...

A polished seal, a familiar logo, and a web address that looks almost perfect. That’s all it takes to trick someone into handing over personal details meant for law enforcement or a federal agency.