Scammers are sending emails from addresses, falsely claiming to be from the City of Lafayette or the planning commission.

A recent PayPal email scam used real PayPal messages to show fake purchase details and a callback number. See how it worked.

Pew Research Center conducted this study to understand Americans’ experiences with and views of online scams and attacks. For this analysis, we surveyed 9,397 adults from April 14 to 20, 2025.

Business Email Compromise scams are a type of crime where criminals hack into email accounts, pretend to be someone they’re not and fool victims into sending money where it doesn't belong. These ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — It's a crime that siphons untold billions from the economy — but many people have never heard of it. Business Email Compromise scams involve criminals hacking into email accounts, ...

Chatbots are everywhere, and we're all using them for every task under the sun. But how about stopping you from clicking on a scam email, or any other type of scam message, for that matter? The ...

Discover the one word you need to look out for when identifying a scam email, plus other red flags when it comes to phishing.

That bank email in your inbox might look legitimate, but it could be a dangerous scam designed to steal your personal information. We recently received one ourselves, and it's alarmingly convincing.

The following is a press release from the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office: The Humboldt County Planning and Building Department has recently received several reports of an email scam targeting our ...

About a month ago, I received a scam email that almost tricked me. It purported to be from PayPal, alerting me to an almost $1,000 charge that was “logged to a new profile.” The message implied that ...