GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) - A message pops up on your computer: “Your computer has been locked up.” “A scare tactic on this fake pop-up that looks like a virus,” says Nathan Drager, president of Quantum ...

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 ...

Fake tech support scams have emerged after the CrowdStrike outage disrupted systems worldwide. The outage was caused by a defective software update from CrowdStrike, not a cyberattack. CrowdStrike ...

Tech support and Internal Revenue Service scams target victims randomly and regularly. Both are old scams, both involve threats and demands for money, and neither is showing any signs of slowing down.

Google is adding a dose of AI to the Chrome browser to protect users from tech support scams. In a blog post, Google says a new version of Chrome arriving for desktops this month will tap “on-device” ...

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NEW CASTLE, Pa. — After a New Castle man lost almost $19,000 in a technical support scam, Pennsylvania State Police are advising the public on what to look out for so they can avoid falling victim to ...

The leader of a tech support fraud scheme was sentenced to seven years in prison after tricking at least 6,500 victims and generating more than $6 million. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- Pittsburgh police are warning the public after investigators said at least two older residents have been tricked into buying thousands of dollars worth of Bitcoin. In both cases, ...

A federal court in Florida has temporarily shut down two “massive” telemarketing operations that allegedly conned tens of thousands of consumers out of millions of dollars by tricking them into fixing ...