Here's a quick tip on some of the top scams to watch out for this year, according to the Better Business Bureau.

Employment scams surged last year, as criminals leveraged artificial intelligence to steal money and personal information from unsuspecting job seekers, experts said. Consumer reports of job scams ...

Over the past year, the BBB said it received nearly 600 reports of employment scams from Washingtonians. The scams led to ...

NEW YORK (AP) — As job-seekers look for work in a challenging environment, an increasing number are falling victim to job scams that promise good pay for completing easy online tasks, according to the ...

In 2022, Davida Padi, now 22, said she got an internship because of a post she saw on TikTok. Now, because of the content she engages with on Instagram, she thinks the platform serves her ads for ...

Perhaps the most sobering of the top five scams of 2026 is the digital arrest scam. This process is an elaborate one that involves a person or people claiming to be law enforcement. They tell you that ...

If you picture a scam victim, you probably picture someone older. Someone in their 60s, 70s, or 80s. But new data says the ...

“Boy, you almost did something really dumb,” I chastised myself when I logged off my computer one day last week. I thought of all the people I read or hear about who fall for the grandparent scams or ...

IT job recruitment scams now include security leadership roles. One CISO offers a blow-by-blow account of a fake job scam launched in the months after he applied for a position. The recent experience ...

At first, the job seekers didn’t notice anything out of the ordinary. One spotted a post on ZipRecruiter for a position at J.P. Morgan, another submitted an application on LinkedIn for a vice ...