Scammers sometimes reach out to say you won a lottery you never entered, but you have to pay to access the money.

A ferocious scam is making a comeback, thanks to artificial intelligence and other modern-day techniques like caller ID and social media messaging. Like some fine wines, some scams improve with age.

Authorities emphasized that recovering funds lost in scams is very rare and once money is lost, it is extremely difficult to recover.

Officials said a deputy took a report from a victim back in September stating she received a call from Publisher’s Clearing ...

An 86-year-old woman in Palos Park, Illinois was scammed out of thousands of dollars in a fake sweepstakes scheme, prompting ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Ohio is among the states most affected by lottery and sweepstakes scams, according to a recent study. Vegas Insider, a sports betting information website, compiled lottery and ...

How to Win the Lottery is based on a factual incident that took place in 2012 and sent shockwaves throughout Mexico and the world.

It happens almost every day -- victims of ruthless scams coming to 7 On Your Side's Michael Finney for help. Often they are elderly, vulnerable and tricked out of their life savings. On Thursday, one ...

A Jamaican man faces wire and mail fraud charges for scamming an elderly woman out of $800,000 through a lottery scam. He has ...

The allure of the casino and the lottery stems from the tantalizing possibility of getting rich quickly with minimal investment. Unfortunately, scammers know this all too well, and they exploit this ...

Tim Fang is a digital producer at CBS Bay Area. A Bay Area native, Tim has been a part of the CBS Bay Area newsroom for more than two decades and joined the digital staff in 2006. A man from Jamaica ...