Alan Schiller just wanted to make a few hundred extra dollars when he responded to a Help Wanted advertisement looking for market researchers posing as shoppers. What he got instead was a bit part in ...

All of the scam victims will be made whole, FTC says Diccon Hyatt is an experienced financial and economics reporter. He's written hundreds of articles breaking down complex financial topics in plain ...

DALLAS (AP) -- MoneyGram said Friday that it has agreed to set up a $100 million compensation fund as part of a settlement of government allegations of fraud through money-transfer scams from 2003 to ...

Postal inspectors on Tuesday began doling out the first payments to Southern California scam victims as part of a $100-million deferred prosecution deal with the money transfer company MoneyGram.

Scam artists, especially those who target the elderly whose minds are slipping, are some of the cruelest people on earth. We should be doing all we can to protect against their schemes. There are some ...

Scammers around the world used Moneygram as a way to get a hold of their victim's cash. The scammers and the wire service made a fortune until the federal government stepped in and held Moneygram ...

Brian Young thought he was talking with a real banker who had a legitimate strategy to boost his credit score and lend him a quick $1,000. Instead, he was talking with a crook who knew how to steal a ...