The FCC later this month will consider a proposal that would allow carriers to block robocalls that have a spoofed caller ID. If approved, the rule would be a major boon for consumers who are hit with robocalls–many of which are part of scams. Caller ID spoofing is a key part of many phone scams, and the tools that make it possible are easy to obtain and use. Scammers have the ability to spoof virtually any phone number when calling a victim, making their calls seem legitimate.

Nigeria has confiscated 2.5 tonnes of "plastic rice" smuggled into the country by unscrupulous businessmen, the customs service says. Lagos customs chief Haruna Mamudu said the fake rice was intended to be sold in markets during the festive season. He said the rice was very sticky after it was boiled and "only God knows what would have happened" if people ate it. It is not clear where the seized sacks came from but rice made from plastic pellets was found in China last year.

Two lawyers were charged Friday with a "massive extortion scheme" in which they uploaded X-rated films to file-sharing sites, sued the people who downloaded them — and collected millions from victims who feared public humiliation, prosecutors said. Paul Hansmeier and John Steele actually produced some of the pornography, solely for the purpose of copyrighting it so they could file "sham lawsuits" used to shake down their targets, Minnesota U.S. Attorney Andrew Luger said.

From their relationship to his proposal to her wedding ring, everything was pretty picture perfect for Sophie and Aaron Long. But six weeks before the big day, doctors diagnosed Sophie with Hodgkin’s lymphoma. For Sophie, it meant chemotherapy and weight loss. But after seven months, she beat the cancer. When she regained the weight she had lost from treatments, Sophie needed her wedding band and engagement ring resized. She said Kay Jewelers, where Aaron purchased the set, said the rings couldn't be altered as she needed, so the store would replace the rings with new ones two sizes bigger.

Multilevel marketing companies claim to be legitimate businesses, but some seem awfully…pyramid shaped. John Oliver and Jaime Camil demonstrate how they work.

The KKK was once a money-making machine, with the Indiana Klan leader alone pulling in over $2.8 million annually. By Roseann Cima.

It can be a frightening call to get. Callers posing as tax and immigration agents are threatening arrest, deportation or other punishment unless money is sent to help clear up what they say is a deportation warrant or to cover unpaid income taxes. The government says it's a scam—one that's tricked at least 15,000 people into shelling out more than $300 million. Now the Justice Department is announcing charges in connection with a call center operation that officials say is based in India.

Another inconvenient truth nobody talks about.

Scammers selling bogus tech support services have moved from cold calls to targeted pop-ups and malware, according to security researchers.

Emma Moore could have been the health and weight loss guru you spent your life looking for. You might be forgiven for not knowing her work -- after all, she has a common name, one that she shares with other similarly successful authors on Amazon. Until this week, she had dozens of health, dieting, cooking, and weight loss ebooks to her name. She published over a dozen ebooks on Amazon this year -- five ebooks alone this month. And Moore would even work with other authors -- like Nina Kelly, Andrew Walker, and Julia Jackson -- who have all published about a dozen ebooks each this year as well.

To investors who lost millions of dollars, Brent Brown is a con man who used a restaurant franchise as his personal piggy bank. But Brown defiantly insists he’s been wrongly vilified and just needs a little more time to make everything right, he swears.

Hackers Stole Customers' Credit and Debit Card Information from 1,025 Wendy's Locations

Telling my story isn’t going to be easy. Oftentimes I feel embarrassed, enraged, and regretful when I have to relive it, but in the end it is a story and life lesson which should be shared so that others may know major red flags to look out for when choosing to work for a startup or new business. What you are about to read is true and happened within the last four months. The names have been changed to protect the innocent and guilty.

Premier Cru’s John Fox got his clients rare vintages at deep discounts when they purchased cases on “pre-arrival.” Then a few too many failed to arrive.

Windows tech support scammers have fleeced an unbelievable number of people out of their hard-earned cash. One geeky vigilante decided to turn the tables. Now, plenty of tech-savvy folks have had a little fun at the expense of these fraudsters. Generally they play along and waste as much of the caller’s time as possible and watch them harmlessly fiddle with a virtual machine. This guy took things to the next level.

In the eyes of the U.S. Social Security Administration, Mrs. B. Taylor had collected her benefits every month for 33 years. Not too unusual — except for the fact Mrs. Taylor died in 1981. U.S. District Judge Arguello in Denver sentenced Mrs. Taylor’s surviving daughter-in-law, Camille Taylor, to six months in prison on Tuesday for fraudulently taking the payments — a grand total of $224,339. Camille Taylor, 69, never notified the government that her mother-in-law had died.

Three people have been charged in an unprecedented $1 billion health care fraud scam, accused of using dozens of Miami nursing homes to bilk the taxpayer-funded Medicare and Medicaid programs, according to an indictment unsealed Friday. "This is the largest single criminal health care fraud case ever brought against individuals by the Department of Justice," Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department's Criminal Division Leslie Caldwell announced in a statement.

Yesterday Trevor "Tmartn" Martin was snuggling with his dog and apologizing in a YouTube video about his CSGO Lotto ownership; today, he, the gambling site and his business partner are being sued. In an amended complaint filed today in the Southern District of Florida, CSGO Lotto, Martin and Thomas Cassell have been added to one of two complaints filed against Valve Corporation in the past few weeks.