In the November 2025 alert⁠ titled “How to avoid an online shopping scam this holiday season,” the FTC notes that scammers often pose as legitimate retailers. They launch fake ads on social media ...

Adults aged 60 and older were more likely to report extraordinarily high losses. An 18-year-old consumer in Michigan lost $4,800 this summer to a 'transfer it to protect it' scam after receiving an ...

An impersonation scam, or imposter scam, is when a criminal pretends to be someone they aren't to get access to your money or financial information. A new report from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC ...

A Reuters report, citing internal Meta documents, found that the company knowingly makes billions of dollars from scam ...

As Giving Tuesday drives a wave of year-end donation requests, federal officials are warning consumers to watch for scammers posing as charities.

Amazon is working to school customers on potential scams ahead of the holiday shopping season. The online retail giant is ...

WASHINGTON -- Love is blind -- and scammers are taking advantage of that. Americans lost more than $201 million to romance scams in 2019, up 40% from 2018, according to a new Federal Trade Commission ...

In April the Federal Trade Commission published, “Consumer Fraud in the United States, 2011.” The report presents findings of a survey commissioned by the agency to examine consumer experiences ...