Merika Smith never had bought anything through an online auction, but that all changed when a distressed, boarded-up West Baltimore rowhouse caught her eye on the Internet. Smith and co-worker Karen ...

Lots of buyers and sellers have discovered the fun and profit of dealing with Internet auction sites. Unfortunately, so have plenty of crooks. Fraud represented 61 percent of the more than 635,000 ...

A 20-year-old British model was kidnapped in Milan, Italy, to be auctioned off on a pornographic website on the dark web, the Italian State Police said Saturday. The model, who has not been named, was ...

Eight people were arrested in the Chicago area Tuesday as part of an Internet fraud scheme that allegedly included bogus auctions on eBay and involved millions of dollars, federal authorities said.

Federal and state fraud fighters are cracking down on Internet auction scams that fleeced thousands of consumers out of money and merchandise. The Federal Trade Commission is announcing Wednesday that ...

Sounds simple, but the difference between landing a bargain and overpaying for a property isn’t quite that cut and dry. Often it comes down to how well a buyer vets a property before the auction and ...

A pair of round, gold-rimmed sunglasses worn by Beatle John Lennon that set a fashion trend have come up for auction at a British Web site. By Reuters, The Associated Press A pair of round, ...

When Detroit Public Television broadcast its last auction in May 2000, the station grossed more than $500,000. But after paying the engineering, studio and overtime costs for the six-day production, ...

In an eBay age, cruising the Internet and typing in a credit card number is getting as easy as putting quarters in a soda machine. But it’s not nearly as safe, a point being driven home on a local Web ...