A fake computer alert can be the first move in a scam that ends with someone moving their own retirement money out of reach.

HASTINGS, Neb. (KSNB) - As college students are headed back to school and families are looking for new computers to start out the school year, there are plenty of scam tactics to look out for when ...

“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 ...

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 ...

US. CONNOR. ALL RIGHT. THANKS, EMILY. TURNING TO THIS NOW HERE, AN ELDERLY COUPLE IN GRAY NARROWLY AVOIDING A MAJOR FINANCIAL SCAM THIS WEEK THANKS TO QUICK ACTION BY THEIR BANK AND POLICE ON FRIDAY, ...

Urgent renewal emails and huge discounts figures are used to pressure people to hand over their data ...

A Charlotte man was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison for participating in a multi-million-dollar, international tech scam that mostly targeted elderly victims with fake online pop-up ads, federal ...

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 ...

TRICKS THEY ARE USING TO GET YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION. YOU TURN ON YOUR LAPTOP OR YOUR PERSONAL COMPUTER, AND ALL OF A SUDDEN YOU SEE A VERY FRIGHTENING MESSAGE. SOMETIMES WITH A BLARING AUDIBLE ...

These helpful 'technicians' have spotted something wrong with my computer... My phone rings. It's a cheap internet call from India. But it's not a so-called “consumer survey”. Instead, it's “Alex ...

Three announcements in the space of a few days this month suggest financial scams have reached a tipping point and banks are ready to up the ante. Santander last week published figures on the amount ...