Consumer complaints to the Better Business Bureau last year rose astronomically in Utah, according to an annual report…

Employment scams are one of the most popular scams on the Internet.

Gone smishing? That’s what has been happening in Greeley the past two days, as hundreds of cell phone users received automated messages or texts, warning them that their bank accounts have been misused. It’s a scam, said police and bank officials, and someone is trying to steal your account numbers so they can take your money or run up huge credit card purchases. Greeley police and the Weld …

Metro Report: VA Medical Center police officer faces theft, fraud charges

In an effort to counter consumer fraud and give residents a way to report crooked businesses, the Department of Revenue, Department of Labor and Industries and several other agencies have established a Web site, www.suspectfraud.com, that allows consumers to check if a business is registered before they sign on the dotted line. The site also allows consumers to report …

Editor’s note: This week is National Consumer Protection Week, and Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster is issuing a “scam of the day alert” each day this week, in an effort to help consumers protect themselves.

Montgomery County awarded more than $600,000 in no-bid payments to nine companies that had ties to county police officers and were part of a controversial tuition-assistance program, Montgomery’s inspector general said in a report released Monday.