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Scam Targeting Seniors

California widower loses $1M to 'wrong number' crypto romance scam

  • Oct 31, 2025

Raleigh woman loses thousands to computer scam

  • Mar 22, 2025

98-year-old woman scammed out of $800K, but no one facing charges

  • Dec 19, 2024
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Americans older than 60 lost $3.4 billion to scams in 2023: FBI

  • May 1, 2024

Romance scam swindles life savings from widow moving to Cary

  • Sep 21, 2023

Grandma scammed out of $5,000 trying to get puppy for grandson

  • Jul 14, 2023

Woman gets COVID tests in the mail she says she didn't order

  • May 3, 2023

Couple tricked into wiring nearly $70K to scammer

  • Apr 28, 2023

Latest Videos

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Be wary of ticket scammers trying to cash in on NCAA games in Triangle

  • Mar 17, 2025
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98-year-old NC woman scammed out of $800K, but no one facing charges

  • Dec 18, 2024
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Widow moves to Cary to start new life; ends up losing $78,000 of her life savings in romance scam

  • Sep 21, 2023
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Raleigh woman who lost life savings in imposter scam is now warning others

  • Apr 1, 2023
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Troubleshooter: Scammers using the BBB name in lottery scam

  • Jul 21, 2020
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Fake FBI agents threaten sick, elderly woman with jail

  • Jul 15, 2017
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NCDOI: Retired insurance agents targeted senior citizens

  • May 22, 2017
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Elderly man falls prey to lottery scam

  • May 20, 2017

Latest Stories

NC woman loses life savings thinking she's 'helping the government,' now she's warning others

The 84-year-old tells ABC11 Troubleshooter she's embarrassed and devastated after losing her life savings.

  • Apr 2, 2023

Apex Police warn of cloning of police department phone numbers in fraud scam

Apex Police are looking into an apparent fraud scam where someone cloned a police department phone number in a scheme to steal money from residents.

  • Mar 22, 2023

Grandma tricks alleged scammer into coming to her house where police pounce, make arrest

"He fell for it. Hook, line and sinker," the Long Island woman said.

  • Jan 22, 2022

This online scam looks to targets your love-life during the pandemic

There are scammers out there looking to take advantage of some people's need for affection as the COVID-19 pandemic has a lot of us couped up at home in isolation.

  • Dec 17, 2020

Fraud Alert: Man loses $45,000 in lottery scam, prompting warnings from BBB

If you didn't enter, you can't win. This is the message from the Better Business Bureau of Eastern North Carolina after a man lost $45,000 to a lottery scam. The man thought he won a lottery through the BBB.

  • Jul 21, 2020