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 ...

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

Attorney General Kwame Raoul on Friday encouraged Illinoisans who have lost money to cryptocurrency fraud and scams to report ...

New phishing scam uses Apple's Find My feature to try and steal Apple ID credentials from people with missing or stolen ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...