British Prime Minister Andy Burnham exchanged messages with an impostor posing as U.S. President Donald Trump's chief of staff, according to reports published Monday.
A man who was scammed out of $172,000 is speaking out in hopes of raising awareness and preventing others from falling victim to social media scams.
Facebook and WhatsApp are failing to remove imposter accounts that "have led to tens of thousands of dollars of fraudulent transfers," says Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg.
The Houston Police Department said that they are still looking for a suspect charged with armed robbery in a Facebook Marketplace heist.
A dramatic rise in a scam known as "ghost tapping" is putting people who use tap-to-pay features on alert.
Friendswood police call it an elaborate scheme to defraud people, involving suspects posing as federal employees, and gold coins.