“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 ...

Two state agencies are warning about scammers texting and claiming that you owe for either unpaid parking or a toll fine. Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost warns the scammers claim ...

FBI investigation shuts down Indian call centers behind $48M in scams. Learn how social engineering, amygdala hijacks, ...

Bad-faith actors use social media and AI to create targeted messaging scams. Learn their tricks and how to keep yourself from ...

In my computer service business, we regularly get calls from users that have been scammed. Some have let a remote scammer onto their computer and get their data/passwords stolen, while some get taken ...

A Moran Avenue resident was nearly scammed out of $36,500 after she received a pop-up message on her computer that claimed it was compromised, according to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nachiket Banwari, a Charlotte resident, was sentenced to serve more than two years in prison for participating in a tech scheme.

Bitcoin extortion emails claiming hackers stole your information are hitting thousands of inboxes daily, and experts are ...

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 ...

Scams are rampant these days and scammers are getting slicker. You might think you’re not susceptible to scams, but be aware ...

WASHINGTON — A computer crash and a pop up message led to a D.C. woman losing out on more than $640,000 through gold coins and wire transfers, the Metropolitan Police Department said on Wednesday. A ...

It’s another computer scam, this one growing in popularity because it plays on your computer’s tendency to malfunction, your faith in friendly tech support folk and your desire to return to a computer ...