Scammers are hijacking Facebook and Instagram accounts to sell phantom cars, and Meta is still playing catch-up. It's a ...

The playbook is disturbingly consistent. Scammers hijack legitimate Facebook or Instagram accounts, giving the post instant ...

PITT COUNTY, N.C. (WITN) - Posts are going around different Facebook groups for Eastern Carolina communities that advertise free food giveaways. They claim to deliver free food to your home if you ...

Meta internally projected late last year that it would earn about 10% of its overall annual revenue – or $16 billion – from running advertising for scams and banned goods, internal company documents ...

With sweet-toothed social media users excited about Halloween season in October 2025, a rumor circulated online that fans of Reese's peanut butter candy products could get a "mystery box" full of ...

The Gove County Sheriff reported on Facebook a potential jury duty scam. A caller who identifies themselves as law ...

ESCANABA, MI – The Facebook page for an animal shelter in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula has been hacked. A puppy scam was posted to the Delta Animal Shelter’s page, the Delta County Sheriff’s Office said ...

It started with a Facebook friend request and a message that felt too good to be true. Then, it quickly turned into an expensive lesson in online deception. The woman this happened to in Jensen Beach, ...

Scam ads on Facebook have evolved beyond the days of misspelled headlines and sketchy product photos. Today, many are powered by artificial intelligence, fueled by deepfake technology and distributed ...

No one is safe. That’s the message from the FBI’s warning that “threat actors are spoofing" its own website. Now those attacks have taken a nasty new twist on Facebook, with a scam that’s already ...

From artificial intelligence robot puppies to fake news reporting the arrest of Martin Lewis, here’s a roundup of the strangest scams of the year. Well-known scams that we’re all familiar with will ...