Summer's here with a sweltering vengeance, and if there's one product we all need to help get us (and those around us) through the day, it's deodorant and/or antiperspirant. We've all probably arrived at our favorite brand through some anxious trial and error, but just because you've settled on a...

A telemarketing scheme that scammed consumers who were trying to unload their timeshares has been temporarily shut down by a judge at the request of the Federal Trade Commission. National Solutions LLC, the FTC said, charged consumers thousands of dollars for lining up fictitious buyers they...

If you've ever landed on a web page that supposedly scanned your computer, said it was infected and tried to sell you anti-virus software, you've had a brush with "scareware." Scareware is malicious software designed to scare consumers into buying something they don't need by masquerading as a...

As the unemployment rate climbed yet again during this seemingly endless recession, desperate job seekers need to be extra careful not to get sucker punched by bogus help wanted ads. Many of these phony help wanted listings, the Better Business Bureau warns, are designed to extract upfront fees or...

The Internet Crime Complaint Center's latest scam alert included too much to cover in one story, so we did one yesterday, while today's focuses on phony, Trojan-laden emails from the FBI and an email campaign targeting victims with an online blackmail scheme. Alerts by the IC3, a partnership...

The Internet Crime Complaint Center's latest scam alert includes a bogus advance-fee email purportedly sent by the director of the FBI as well as harassing payday loan calls from scammers claiming to represent the IC3. Alerts by the IC3, a partnership between the FBI and the National White Collar...

A New Jersey man posing as a licensed physicians admitted illegally treating patients, prescribing medicine and even ordering procedures for dozens of unsuspecting victims in the Toms River area of New Jersey, the FBI announced. Patrick Lynch, 54, who masqueraded as an doctor with an Ocean County,...

Macy's Inc. has agreed to pay a $750,000 penalty for selling dangerous, drawstring-equipped children's clothing, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced. Children's upper outerwear with drawstrings, such as sweatshirts, sweaters and jackets, pose a strangulation hazard that...

JP Morgan Chase has agreed to pay nearly a quarter of a billion dollars in compensation, penalties and disgorgement to federal and state agencies to settle charges of bid rigging in the municipal bond market, the Justice Department announced. Under the agreement, the nation's second-largest bank...

A Florida psychiatrist pleaded guilty last week for his role in a health care scam that resulted in the submission of more than $200 million worth of bogus claims to Medicare, the Department of Justice, the FBI and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced. Dr. Alan Gumer, 64, of...