NEW YORK — A Brooklyn woman was scammed out of $100,000 in an elaborate scheme involving a frozen computer, an in-person meeting and a secret code word. As police search for the alleged scammer, the ...

Imagine working on your computer and getting an alert on your screen—that’s what happened to one viewer wanting to spread the word about this new scam. Viewer message: "My computer locked up with a ...

Travis, it appears, is part of a computer-savvy group of crooks preying on innocent people. The scammers’ main objective: to ...

T he fraud started in August 2023 as fear dressed up as urgency. Pop-up warnings began flashing across 86-year-old Nina ...

DEAR HELOISE: I have a warning for those who don't know everything about computers! At 63 years old, I nearly allowed someone to access my computer. While I was trying to print a recipe, my computer ...

Families that combine open communication with effective behavioral and technical safeguards can cut the risk dramatically.

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 ...

A suspect in a computer pop-up scam is in Martin County Jail after deputies say he stole $50,000 from a local senior citizen. Weikai Zhang, 43, was arrested in New York and charged with organized ...

Edge’s Scareware blocker goes mainstream, using AI and SmartScreen integration to stop fake alerts before users fall for them ...

BARNEGAT−Township police helped foiled an online scam that nearly cost a resident $95,000. The unnamed victim told police ...

In an email we received from Janet D., she shared her recent unsettling experience. Here’s what she described: "I received a pop-up that froze my computer and read, ‘Access to this system is blocked ...