Scammers are targeting people who have already lost money in cryptocurrency scams, posing as law firms and government agencies offering “fund recovery.” This is a dangerous second wave of fraud that ...

For more on law-school scamming, see the Inside the Law School Scam blog (written by an anonymous “tenured mid-career faculty member at a Tier One school”) and these two recent posts at law professor ...

Yarilet Perez is an experienced multimedia journalist and fact-checker with a Master of Science in Journalism. She has worked in multiple cities covering breaking news, politics, education, and more.

Two years ago, an elderly man lost more than $1 million to a romance scam. That sentence is easy to read and easier to dismiss. It sounds like something that happens to someone else. A cautionary tale ...

In January 2026, the Trump administration announced a new DOJ National Fraud Enforcement Division, potentially reporting directly to the White House, to combat widespread fraud affecting federal ...