The Lender Who Needs Your Money First The car won’t start. The landlord wants last month’s rent plus this month. The credit cards are maxed and the bank already said …
Online Scams
From romance scams to fake pharmacies, online fraud evolves faster than most people can keep up. These investigations expose what's really happening.
15 investigations published
The Email Looked Exactly Like Amazon. It Wasn’t. Amazon has 220 million Prime members. Scammers know this. They also know that if they fire off a fake “your membership fee …
The Machine That Eats Money: Inside the Bitcoin ATM Scam Myndi Jordan was just stopping for gas. It was June 2024, a Fort Worth gas station, an ordinary afternoon. Then …
When Disaster Strikes, So Do the Scammers The Altadena neighborhood was still smoldering when grahamd1983’s phone rang. An 800 number. A stranger on the line who somehow already knew they’d …
A woman in the United States needed oxycodone. She found what looked like a legitimate pharmacy online. The site had a clean layout, what appeared to be proper credentials, and …