CANAAN — Imagine being home bound on a fixed income. Friends have passed away; family is scattered in different parts of the country. The phone rings. A voice on the other end says that you have been ...

Americans get 2.5 million scam and robocalls a month, according to U.S. PIRG Education Fund, a consumer advocacy organization ...

The scale of fraudulent telecommunications activity has reached unprecedented levels, with an estimated 50 billion nuisance calls targeting American consumers each year. This massive criminal ...

An Ohio man has been sentenced to four years in federal prison and ordered to repay nearly $200,000 he stole from mostly elderly people through a telemarketing scam. Myron Plummer of Mentor, Ohio, ...

Text or short message service (SMS) scams decreased significantly by 86.6% in 2025, as scammers shifted to call-based scams ...