A former professor from Richmond was found guilty in a student financial aid fraud scheme, according to acting U.S. Attorney John G.E. Marck.

Eleven people were arrested for stealing elderly people’s identities then use the information to get loans in Southern ...

An accused scammer busted in a $17 million identity theft ring lived a lavish life in a gleaming North Hollywood mansion ...

FBI agents swarmed the North Hollywood mansion of an accused fraudster who allegedly worked with an identity-theft syndicate led by an illegal Iranian migrant to steal $17 million from wealthy Los ...

The MarketWatch News Department was not involved in the creation of this content. RESTON, Va., Dec. 15, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Regula, a global developer of identity verification (IDV) solutions and ...

Identity thieves have begun targeting college admissions. Our Simone De Alba shares her firsthand experience with the scam ...

The rise of generative and agentic AI is fueling a wave of identity fraud, creating new challenges for state and local agencies. Nation-states, criminal gangs and others are using autonomous rogue AI ...

Odds are good you’ve encountered an identity theft protection service in the last year, even if you weren’t looking to sign ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway is warning residents that identity theft continues to rank among the nation’s fastest-growing crimes. “The Missouri Attorney ...

Robocalls, texts, and phishing emails from scammers are up this tax season compared to previous years, according to the consumer protection bureau of the FTC ...

The UK is seeing more than 1,200 fraud cases each day, with more than half of them linked to identity fraud, according to new figures from fraud database Cifas.

It started with a voicemail from a Hertz rental car location in Miami, Florida. A 57-year-old woman in Los Alamitos, California, was asked when she planned to return a Mercedes-Benz she had never ...