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 ...

Liberty store clerk and police officer prevent elderly resident from falling victim to cryptocurrency scam of $30,000 ...

RENO, Nev. (News 4 & Fox 11) — Attorneys general across the country, the U.S. Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission and other regulators are working to crackdown on fraudsters who try to ...

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 ...

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 U.S. federal court has shut down what the Federal Trade Commission says was a fake tech-support firm that posed as Facebook and Microsoft and tricked consumers into paying up to $600 for bogus ...

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 ...

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Scammers convinced a Santa Cruz woman she was in trouble with the law -- but after initially falling for their tricks, the ...

The rapid rise of AI-generated child sexual abuse materials (CSAM) is leaving Ohio lawmakers grappling with how to address the issue. Former golf pro on run in Mexico indicted for stealing nearly $1M ...

SHREVEPORT, La. – This new survey from Mastercard shows the most vulnerable group of Americans isn't seniors, but their kids and grandkids. And it's not even close. According to the Federal Trade ...

Fraud costs Americans billions every year.