CHICAGO (WLS) -- Tis the season of giving and receiving gifts, and that means new holiday scams are flooding your email and text messages. There is no better time than the holidays for thieves to fool ...

Gift card scams often involve fraudsters impersonating trusted organizations or individuals and pressuring victims to ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — ‘Amazon’ or "Bank of your choice", we've all seen the scam texts. Someone pretending to be the company and trying to get us to click a link. The first text names my co-worker and it ...

Gift card companies are adding protections for consumers, who are increasingly being duped into sending funds to online scammers through store credit. In 2022, nearly 65,000 consumers were swindled ...

The Indiana Attorney General's Office is warning consumers not to respond to text messages claiming you have won a free gift card ("Gift card text message scams," Fraud Alert, May 1). The office ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — I got this text out of the blue saying: "Congrats, Ben! Your code 9FR-S3R7 printed on your last receipt is among 7 we randomly picked for $1000 Walmart gift card promotion." We all ...

While we were preparing for Thanksgiving dinner, I received a text on my cell phone, saying I had registered for and won a $1,000 gift card to Target. Then family members started getting the same text ...