BETHLEHEM, Pa. - While off duty, a Bethlehem police officer rescued an elderly woman from falling victim to a scam. According to a social media post from the police department, Officer Stom was off ...

DILI, East Timor—Last fall, the Trump administration announced criminal charges and sweeping sanctions against what it said was a transnational criminal syndicate that had stolen billions of dollars ...

Besides freezing crypto, the strike force also seized a Telegram channel used to recruit unsuspecting job seekers and took down 503 fake crypto investment websites. The US Department of Justice ...

Crypto scammers are targeting the thousands of ships stranded near the Strait of Hormuz—and at least one ship that faced Iranian gunfire may have been tricked into believing it had paid Iran for safe ...

Just about every day, we receive emails from readers who have encountered new scams. Many involve cryptocurrency. The pattern keeps repeating. Someone receives a message that feels urgent, emotional ...

PLYMOUTH, Mich. – A Plymouth man shared the story of how he lost $37,000 in a cryptocurrency scam and how the whole scheme started. Steven Cooke said the ordeal began March 20, when a warning took ...

71-year-old Karin Schmeling was emotionally manipulated into depositing $4,400 into a cryptocurrency kiosk after a fraudulent technical support alert convinced her that her bank account was ...

Singer-songwriter G. Love says he lost his retirement fund after falling for a crypto scam. On April 11, the “Baby’s Got Sauce” singer revealed in a series of X (formerly Twitter) posts that he lost ...

PLYMOUTH, Mich. – Americans lost $21 billion in cybercrimes in 2025. Around half involved cryptocurrency, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. A Plymouth man told Local 4 he lost $37,000 ...

An Illinois judge has sentenced a Texas man to more than two decades in federal prison for orchestrating a $20 million cryptocurrency scam. Prosecutors said Robert Dunlap, 55, of Houston, Texas, ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. — Centralia police said a woman recently lost more than $1,400 to a scammer posing as a sheriff’s deputy who convinced her to deposit cash into a cryptocurrency kiosk — the latest in a ...

G. Love has fallen victim to a cryptocurrency scam. The laid-back blues vocalist and harmonica player, born Garrett Dutton, shared in a Twitter thread that he’d taken for all the Bitcoin he’d saved ...