Looking back, the initial contact had all the elements of the earliest “Nigerian prince” email scams. The writer, who uses the name of a real member of a real book club, opened with detailed flattery ...

Convicted con artists reveal secrets to how they hook people. — -- It was 11 o’clock in the morning when Luann and Betty Ann’s world was shattered with a single phone call. “He says, ‘Do you have ...

Authors are being hit with a "deluge" of scam emails, some of which appear to impersonate industry professionals, marketing ...

Laci Mosley arrived in Hollywood with few liquid assets beyond highly flammable club dresses, questionable bartending experiences, and super-sized confidence. That didn’t stop the trilingual baddie ...

Scam books have plagued Amazon for years. The newest reported scam is a book listing for Luis Elizondo’s ‘Imminent: Inside the Pentagon’s Hunt for UFOs.’ The fake posting had the same cover, but a ...

As romance scams are on the rise, a bipartisan group of lawmakers is introducing new legislation aimed at holding accountable those who seek to defraud retirees and steal their hard-earned savings.

Excerpted with permission from the publisher Scamlands: Inside the Asian empire of fraud that preys on the world ‎,‎ Snigdha Poonam, published by Penguin Viking.