(Reuters) -The U.S. Federal Trade Commission will not take consumers' fraud complaints or help them block spam calls, and it will not grant early clearance to mergers during the government shutdown, ...

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 ...

(WJET/WFXP) — Scammers cost consumers a huge amount in 2024, according to a new report from the Federal Trade Commission, costing them an estimated hundreds of millions of dollars in scams that ...

The Federal Trade Commission released an analysis on December 22, 2025, showing that consumers reported nearly 65,000 rental scams to the agency from January 2020 through June 2025, resulting in about ...