A scam has targeted one Acadiana resident who claims she paid a company $500 last year for virus protection on her computer. The company recently contacted the woman demanding she go to a website and ...

“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 ...

ROCHE HAS MORE. SO WHEN THE FBI IS ISSUING A WARNING ABOUT A SCAM, THEN YOU KNOW IT’S GOT TO BE SERIOUS. WE OFTEN REFER TO THIS ONE AS THE COMPUTER SCAM, BUT THE FBI IS CALLING IT THE PHANTOM HACKER ...

Fake CAPTCHA scams trick users into opening command windows and pasting malicious scripts, installing StealC malware that steals passwords silently.

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 fake Norton scammer calling himself Eric thought he was about to trick another victim into downloading remote-access software. Instead, the team reversed the connection, hacked his computer, and ...

A 35-year-old Revere man was arrested for allegedly trying to scam someone out of $15,000. Around 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Essex police received a report from a family member of an Essex resident who ...

Officials said a woman scammed a man out of $39,000 by gaining access to his computer and convincing him to give her the cash ...

NORTH MANKATO — More than $25,000 was recovered for a victim of a mail scam as the result of a recent Minnesota River Valley Drug Task Force investigation involving a suspicious package sent to a ...