WASHINGTON, Oct. 1, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- As the 2025 holiday shopping season approaches, an alliance of leading retailers, card networks, and law enforcement agencies is launching a nationwide social ...

Investigators say scam toll and postal texts are part of a billion-dollar phishing operation run by criminal networks in China. Fraudsters use SIM ...

The Gift Card Fraud Prevention Alliance is launching a nationwide social-media campaign to combat gift card fraud this holiday shopping season. The campaign, which runs from Oct. 1 through Christmas ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Gift card scams are a growing problem. The method of separating consumers and their money used to be by ...

Patrick Crumback was told he won $10,000,000 grand prize from Publishers Clearing House. Instead, scammers took $1,000 and ...

Scammers come at you in lots of different ways. Included are fake texts and fraudulent emails, all with convincing stories about why you need to send money right now to cover overdue toll fees or ...

TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) - Two people were arrested in Toledo on Oct. 10, 2024, for an alleged gift card scam. According to a police report, Mingxuan Fang and Kefeng Xue were both arrested on Oct. 10 and ...

An Athens woman was fooled into believing she won $7.5 million as a sweepstakes prize. Lucky for her, family knew better.