It can be a frightening call to get — and it's a familiar one for many thousands of Americans. Callers posing as tax and immigration agents are threatening arrest, deportation or other punishment ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Worldwide and local authorities are cracking down on alleged telephone scam artists, many of them pretending to be from the IRS. Dozens of suspects were indicted Thursday by the U.S.

HOUSTON – An indictment was unsealed charging a total of 61 individuals and entities for their alleged involvement in a transnational criminal organization that has victimized tens of thousands in the ...

Scam call centers rely on strict scripts and pressure tactics. In this video, we flipped the situation and treated the call ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The operator of a group of boiler room-style call centers in Everett faces up to 20 years in prison for defrauding more than 1,000 ...

HOUSTON — Thirteen people have been charged in a sweeping elder fraud case that allegedly targeted more than 400 seniors across the United States with losses topping $5 million. Federal officials said ...

Authorities in Massachusetts say an intricate scam that preyed on elderly victims across the country has been broken up – thanks, in-part, to a rideshare service. U.S. Attorney for the District of ...

Although we often say children are the future of the nation, a number of them have been lost to online crime groups.

The operator of a group of boiler room-style call centers in Everett faces up to 20 years in prison for defrauding more than 1,000 homeowners who faced foreclosures, the Department of Justice (DOJ) ...