Over 23,000 Louisiana consumers reported fraud to the Federal Trade Commission in 2021, resulting in a total loss of more than $30 million, according to the FTC. The Commission said it received 23,404 ...

The Federal Trade Commission says the number of people who reported being hit by scams initiated on social sites more than doubled from 2020 to 2021. Andrew Blok covered home energy, with a focus on ...

Americans are increasingly targeted by scammers on social media, according to tens of thousands of reports received by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in 2021. As revealed by the FTC, over ...

The Federal Trade Commission says Americans have lost at least $2.7 billion to social media scams since 2021, with the actual number likely many times larger due to severe under-reporting. A recent ...

Recent FTC regulations targeting spam calls have reduced complaints about them by over 50 percent, the agency says. Recent FTC regulations targeting spam calls have reduced complaints about them by ...

A growing number of U.S. consumers are getting scammed on social media, according to a new report by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which revealed that consumers lost $770 million to social media ...

New data from the Federal Trade Commission shows that more consumers than ever report falling prey to romance scammers. Consumers reported losing $547 million in 2021 alone. In 2021 romance scams were ...

The Federal Trade Commission's (FTC's) latest "data spotlight" release shows $148 million in gift card payment scams have been recorded for the first nine months of 2021. This growing trend exceeds ...