Users are pnce again getting texts from the "DMV" and "MVC" warning them of outstanding traffic tickets and threatening ...

The Division of Motor Vehicles and state Attorney General’s Office say a new round of scam text messages have popped up in North Carolina.

Do not send anything back–not questions as to the sender’s identity, and not requests to remove you from their list.

Including fake hardship stories along with ads is one technique online scammers use to draw in potential buyers. Common ploys ...

“Dollar Tree is such a scam,” says someone in @unicorn2.0’s video. The presumably plastic champagne flutes have a red sticker with “$2” written on it. Someone peels the sticker off the item and ...

Scammers understand human psychology perfectly. They know you scan that code because you are in a hurry and worried about ...

Some years it is easy to pick out the largest news of the year. Other years, it requires more in-depth discussion as we review what has happened over the last 12 months. This year, there was ...

Even now, face to face with his decimated savings, it’s hard to reconcile the five-month relationship he had with a Finnish woman in Florida with the elaborate scam it now clearly was. It felt ...

In a significant crackdown, six individuals were apprehended for allegedly extorting motorists by forcibly pasting reflective (radium) stickers on their vehicles, according to police reports on ...

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UNITED STATES - OCTOBER 13: Brokerage firm Merrill Lynch at the World Financial Center. (Photo by Robert Rosamilio/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images) Nina Mortellito, an 86-year-old New Yorker is ...