“Message scam losses are on the rise,” is the headline in a recent edition of the AARP Bulletin. To be sure, in every single AARP publication as well as in Consumer Reports and other magazines, there ...

Q: What should I do if I fell for a phishing scam? Phishing scams are a low-effort, low-risk, high-payoff process for cybercriminals that focuses on exploiting human behaviors. Instead of trying to ...

It feels awful to be scammed. Unnerving to have a person's voice suddenly yelling at you right out of your computer. And you can't make it stop. "You've been hacked!" "You have pornographic material ...

Fairview Heights police warn of a $90,000 computer pop-up scam targeting elderly residents, urging caution against fraudulent ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan. — Computers have become an essential part of this tech-driven world. They can be our best friends or our worst enemies. So much information and data is stored within them that ...

CONSIDERING THIS CHANGE. DEMOCRATS OPPOSE THE MEASURE. AN 86 YEAR-OLD VICTIM OF A COMPUTER SCAM IS GETTING THEIR MONEY BACK THANKS TO BEDFORD POLICE. BEDFORD POLICE SAY THE VICTIM RECEIVED AN ALERT ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (WHAT THE TECH?) — Scammers target anyone and everyone and they know which scams work for different demographics and all different ages. If someone begins describing a typical scam ...

LYCOMING COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — A warning from area law enforcement: Beware of a computer scam showing up in northeastern and central Pennsylvania. This scam targets a specific demographic, a certain ...

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - An electronics scam that could be on the rise as an Omaha retailer warns some bad actors are taking advantage of online shoppers looking for lower prices. It comes as prices on ...

If you own a phone or a computer, you have almost certainly been the target of a scam. No matter your age, scammers have become more attuned than ever to preying on society’s most vulnerable.

Two Angelenos have been arrested for allegedly hacking the computer of an elderly Ventura resident by using a “Norton Virus” scam. On Thursday afternoon, police received a report that a computer had ...