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 ...

AND BOTH PROPOSALS ARE UNDER CONSIDERATION. NEW ON DAYBREAK, A MASSACHUSETTS WOMAN WILL SPEND AT LEAST TWO YEARS BEHIND BARS AFTER PLEADING GUILTY TO HER ROLE IN A SCAM THAT TARGETED THE ELDERLY.

A metro Atlanta senior citizen says his Vanguard retirement and investment accounts were drained by a crook posing as a federal agent. The scammer was pretending to help the victim recover money ...

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 ...

The National Coalition on Aging (NCOA) says the Phantom Hacker Scam will try to target anyone, but they tend to go after ...

Microsoft has started testing a new "scareware blocker" feature for the Edge web browser on Windows PCs, which uses machine learning (ML) to detect tech support scams. Scareware scams (also known as ...

WTTV/WXIN – The Federal Trade Commission is sending out a warning about a stubborn scam that could leave you locked out of your own computer. According to the FTC, tech support scams often appear as a ...

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 ...

TL;DR: Microsoft's recent Edge update introduces a blocker to combat scareware scams, which use aggressive pop-ups, fullscreen lock-ins, and fake warnings to trick users into calling fraudulent ...

A metro Atlanta senior citizen says his Vanguard retirement and investment accounts were drained by a crook posing as a federal agent. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] The ...

Consumer Investigator Justin Gray with our sister station WSB-TV talked to a man who said his Vanguard accounts were emptied. The victim asked for his identity to be hidden, because he has not even ...