Phyllis Weisberg, 90, never thought she’d fall for a scam. Though widowed and living alone, she maintained robust social connections and confidently used her mobile phone and laptop computer to ...

Ever received an unexpected alert by text or email claiming there is a problem with your computer that the sender needs your help to fix? That could very well have been a tech support scam. The ...

A metro Atlanta senior citizen says his Vanguard retirement and investment accounts were drained by a crook posing as a federal agent. The scammer was pretending to help the victim recover money ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Zak Doffman writes about security, surveillance and privacy. You have been warned. This threat is now surging and has more than ...

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” ...

Consumer Investigator Justin Gray with our sister station WSB-TV talked to a man who said his Vanguard accounts were emptied. The victim asked for his identity to be hidden, because he has not even ...

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 ...

Internet scams are a booming business. According to the most current crime report from the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 2023, the United States saw the highest number of complaints—nearly 3.8 ...

A new report from the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) paints a sobering picture of just how much damage cyber criminals are doing across the country. In 2024, more than 859,000 Americans ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WTTV/WXIN – The Federal Trade Commission is ...

TL;DR: Microsoft's recent Edge update introduces a blocker to combat scareware scams, which use aggressive pop-ups, fullscreen lock-ins, and fake warnings to trick users into calling fraudulent ...