Pennsylvania State Police are warning residents about a computer scam that tricks victims into sending bitcoin or other cryptocurrency to scammers posing as Microsoft support personnel. Most ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

The FTC has warned of a fake CAPTCHA scam that tricks users into running hidden malware on their devices by asking them to ...

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

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.

The Ohio Attorney General’s office is warning consumers about a scam that has seen an uptick in recent weeks involving computer repairs. Callers claim to be with a large corporation and telling people ...

A computer scam that uses malware to freeze your screen and then demands a $100 ransom to unlock it has prompted Vancouver police to issue a warning. "The scam is a variation of an online extortion ...

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 ...