Farmers Telephone Cooperative says it has received reports of a scam in the form of fraudulent emails.

Seniors have been consistently targeted by a wide range of scams. New data from the Federal Trade Commission show that reported financial fraud losses among older Americans increased sharply in 2024, ...

Scammers are draining seniors’ life savings at staggering rates, a new Federal Trade Commission report shows, with older Americans reporting about four times more in fraud losses in 2024 than in 2020.

Older Americans are losing more money than ever to scams, according to a new Federal Trade Commission report to Congress, with losses climbing sharply over the past four years. The FTC’s 2024–2025 ...

Fraud losses reported by people 60 and older climbed to nearly $2.4 billion in 2024, quadrupling since 2020 Investment scams—often tied to social media pitches—drove the biggest losses, while phone ...

Older Americans continued to lose billions of dollars to fraud in 2024, with scams increasingly exploiting trust, urgency and new technologies. The Federal Trade Commission said impostor scams, ...

Bitcoin ATM fraud hit $333 million in losses in 2025, the FBI said. Over 10,000 people have fallen victim to bitcoin ATM scams, with older adults being the most affected. Bitcoin ATM fraud losses have ...

Fraud, scams, hoaxes—however you want to label such malfeasance, it’s been around since humans became social creatures. What’s new, however, is scammers' ability to reach large numbers of potential ...