We asked 10 financial pros to share the money scams they’ve seen — and how to prevent them from happening to you ...

Learn how pig butchering crypto scams work, the warning signs, tax and legal consequences, and prevention tips.

The process typically follows a narrow, repeatable pattern: unsolicited contact, trust-building and then a lure into fake investment schemes. Recognizing the warning signs gives you a strong chance of ...

Barely a day goes by without a scam of some kind popping up on our phones or in our email, trying to get us to download malware, reveal a password or pay for fraudulent goods. But there’s one bit of ...

The former CEO of a small Kansas bank was sentenced to more than 24 years in prison for looting the bank of $47 million. Shan Hanes, pronounced Shane, sent the funds from Heartland Tri-State Bank to ...

(WFSB) - Connecticut State Police sought to warn people about investment scams known as “pig butchering.” Troopers on Tuesday cited statistics from the FBI that said cryptocurrency investment fraud ...

FILE - In this Sept. 16, 2017, file photo, a person uses a smart phone in Chicago. Bank impersonations are the top reported type of text message scam. (AP Photo, File ...

Hanes, 53, also swindled funds from a local church and investment club — and a daughter's college savings account — to transfer money, purportedly to buy cryptocurrency as the scammers insisted they ...

The Department of Justice has charged four men with perpetrating a scam that involved persuading victims to invest large sums of money into a fraudulent platform. (Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) ...