A Westmoreland County woman is warning others after losing nearly $247,000 in a Facebook scam that preyed on her empathy and spanned more than three years.

Scammers on Facebook are gaming the platform’s recommendation engine to push fraudulent content directly into the feeds of older adults, turning a social network built for family updates into a ...

Emily Long is a freelance writer based in Salt Lake City. After graduating from Duke University, she spent several years reporting on the federal workforce for Government Executive, a publication of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new Facebook scam starts with a simple message—like "How are you?"—but ends with stolen accounts, fake offers, and drained ...

Many too-good-to-be true deals on social media are nothing but scams. Consumers reported losing $794 million to scams that started on Facebook in 2025 — far more than what was lost to scams that began ...

Facebook now accounts for the vast majority of scams on social media, according to an explosive new study — and critics claim it’s because Mark Zuckerberg’s tech giant is more focused on making money ...

Anyone who’s been on Facebook recently knows the platform is plagued by advertising and other posts from scammers and other frauds. But the massive scale of the issue is no surprise to parent company ...

Michigan's Attorney General reported receiving 311 complains in 2025 from consumers locked out of social media accounts after takeover scams. Con artists often get their cash up front asking for a ...

A message like this can make your stomach drop. It looks like it came from Meta, uses the company logo and threatens your Facebook account. That scary mix is exactly why this scam works. Angela wrote ...

If you use Facebook or Instagram, there’s a good chance that you’ve seen the scam we’re talking about. It often begins with an emotional hook. A heavy heart, a beloved family member suddenly falling ...

Scammers are relentless in their pursuit of your personal information, from login credentials to credit card numbers, and one of the latest schemes targets Facebook users (again), this time in an ...