63% of realtors had heard of title or deed fraud happening in their areas.

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Person holding their phone with an incoming call from an unknown number. There's no way around it, Americans are inundated every day with nuisance and scam calls: about 50 billion of them per year, ...

Dean James McAuley, a serial scammer with a lengthy history of targeting vulnerable elderly women, has been sent to prison ...

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Police say a scammer successfully made off with hundreds of pounds of lobster from a Medley business but was busted after ...

In late November 2024, Seth Alvo of Berm Peak, a popular cycling YouTube channel with over 2.5 million subscribers, was made aware that someone had stolen his identity using LLMs like ChatGPT to ...

Police in Washington state are investigating reports that a scammer posing as popular MSNBC host Ari Melber bilked at least $20,000 out of a 73-year-old woman and even convinced her to meet up. The ...

With affordable housing so hard to find in South Florida, a good deal from what looks like a reputable realtor is hard to resist. So hard, NBC6 Investigates found, people are sending thousands in cash ...

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