It’s 2025, and Social Security scams are, unfortunately, still going strong. In fact, they are the most common type of government impersonation fraud in the U.S. — and scammers are getting more creative and convincing…

It is a gut-wrenching, heartbreaking feeling when someone realizes they’ve been the victim of a scam. Iolan Jeanne Cloud unfortunately knows that feeling all too well. “They got me,” said Cloud. “And I always thought…

WICHITA, KANSAS (AP) — Sobs of relief broke out in a federal courtroom in Kansas last week as dozens of people whose life savings had been embezzled by a bank CEO learned that federal law…

WICHITA — A text message scam using the state’s new toll payment name and logo is going around, the Kansas Turnpike Authority said Tuesday afternoon. A text, which is using numbers “chosen at random” and…

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska woman allegedly found a lucrative quirk at a gas station pump — double-swipe the rewards card and get free gas! Unfortunately for her, you can’t do that, prosecutors said.…

“When I realized it, my brain said, ‘you knew it all along,’” Allen County resident Alzina Kress remorsefully explained. “I fell for it and didn’t even think about it.”  Kress is a recent victim of…

HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas man on a date who paid $40 to park, only to learn inside a Houston burger joint that he was scammed, allegedly went back and fatally shot the man posing…

LAWRENCE — Douglas County officials are warning the public of a fraudulent mailer threatening to seize assets and garnish wages and bank accounts due to an alleged unpaid tax liability, the Lawrence Journal World reported.…

Wouldn’t it be easier for them to get a job? Seems so. But the scammers are at it again, this time targeting cell phones in the 620 area code with a fake notification from the…

TOPEKA — Federal prosecutors acting on disclosures of a whistleblower moved to seize $700,000 in a civil asset forfeiture case alleging a former information technology employee defrauded Saint Francis Ministries of millions of dollars while…