This past week, many agencies celebrated "Safer Internet Day" by sharing tips to help us all be mindful of the importance of staying alert to potential safety and fraud issues online. One area that ...

The U.S. Attorney’s Office has recovered and returned approximately $328,573 to a victim of a computer support scam in Connecticut, federal officials said. “A computer support scam is a type of fraud ...

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.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...

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

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 ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) — Scammers are posing as tech support representatives from major companies like Microsoft, Google, or Apple, attempting to deceive users into giving up sensitive information. Despite ...

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 ...

(WJAR) — Tech support scams are impacting older Americans at a staggering rate. According to the Federal Trade Commission, tech support scams target people 60 and older about five times more often ...

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 ...

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 ...