Have you ever wired money to an overseas bank account simply because you received an email asking you to do so? Probably not, but there are plenty of people who have done just that, and they have paid ...

A.M. Best Company, Inc. An insurance agent who worked for a North Dakota mutual insurance company has been sentenced by a federal judge on three counts of wire fraud. "We learned about Henning's fraud ...

Law enforcement agencies categorize the e-mails as Nigerian 419 scams. Most of them originate in that West African nation. They used to come through the mail, then by fax machine, and with the ...

transfer $27 million into my bank account in order to steal it. For allowing this I would receive 20 percent of the total. Sounds like a scam. I want to know who I should report this to. -- M.F., ...

With cryptocurrency fraud and IRS scams making headlines, I had thought Nigerian email schemes were a thing of the past, akin to the bygone days when a scammer might offer to sell you the Brooklyn ...

Have you ever wondered how long Nigerian princes have been asking for bank account numbers? It's an old problem. NPR talks with Boston Globe correspondent Finn Brunton about the history of the ...

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When Dean Cameron got an e-mail from a Nigerian con artist, the actor didn't immediately trash the forwarded scam letter. Instead, Cameron turned the tables on the con man, wrote him back and turned ...

Today, for free, a scammer can run a text draft through artificial intelligence and clean it up so well that a high school grammar teacher would be proud. MICHAEL MULVEY / 173789 Reader R.V. Baugus of ...

The glittering success stories you see are built over a treacherous foundation of six deadly, targeted scams. Forget old-school 419. These new scams are sophisticated, digital, and often deployed by ...