“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 ...

Fake party invitations trick victims into downloading malware that gives criminals remote access to computers and spreads through contact lists.

A man was arrested Thursday in connection to computer scam targeting an elder victim. Avinash Chandreshbhai Patel,19, of Apex, is facing charges of attempted obtaining property by false pretense and ...

In a twist straight out of a thriller, one man refused to play the victim. After realizing he was being targeted by scammers, he launched a counterattack that ended with him taking control of their ...

If you stay on the internet long enough, you are bound to come across browser pop-ups. While many of them are just annoying, ranging from advertisements and paywall restrictions to requests to disable ...

HARTFORD, Conn. (WFSB) - There’s a new scam exploiting a common security tool online. Scammers are using fake CAPTCHA prompts to try and download malware on your computer. When browsing online, you’ve ...

Tech support scammers have devised a method to inject their fake phone numbers into webpages when a target’s web browser visits official sites for Apple, PayPal, Netflix, and other companies. The ruse ...

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. A ...

The Portage County Sheriff's Office is warning of two separate reports it has received of a "Microsoft virus" scam targeting seniors. In this scheme, victims are falsely informed that their computers ...

A resident from Hingham, Massachusetts fell victim to an online scammer claiming to be from Microsoft on Tuesday. According to Hingham police, the resident lost $21,000 in the scheme. Investigators ...