The U.S. Federal Trade Commission will suspend several key consumer services during the government shutdown. Consumers will be unable to file fraud complaints or use the national Do Not Call Registry.

In the current digital era, financial security is an issue that we usually do not pay attention to until suddenly, through a notification or a transaction we did not expect, we realize just how much ...

Between October 2024 and October 2025, nearly 12,000 incidents of fraud and cybercrime were reported in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.

(Reuters) -The U.S. Federal Trade Commission will not take consumers' fraud complaints or help them block spam calls, and it will not grant early clearance to mergers during the government shutdown, ...

The Fraud Section reported a very productive 2025, with enforcement metrics in several categories surpassing or on par with certain eye-popping statistics reported by the Section in 2024. Notably, the ...