“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 ...

TRICKS THEY ARE USING TO GET YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION. YOU TURN ON YOUR LAPTOP OR YOUR PERSONAL COMPUTER, AND ALL OF A SUDDEN YOU SEE A VERY FRIGHTENING MESSAGE. SOMETIMES WITH A BLARING AUDIBLE ...

Scammers are getting sneakier, so we have to be smarter. Here’s how.

Scammers will never pass up an opportunity to use malware to steal your data. While we're using the internet for nearly everything from banking to social media, they're creating thousands of new ...

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.

Fake Check Scams Someone sends you a check or money order, which you are asked to deposit in your account and wire-transfer the sender a portion of the money, minus a nice bonus for you as a “thank ...

A new scam is making the rounds online, and it's disguising itself as a simple captcha test, getting you to click without ...

A scam has targeted one Acadiana resident who claims she paid a company $500 last year for virus protection on her computer. The company recently contacted the woman demanding she go to a website and ...

A new scam using fake CAPTCHA authentication screens allows hackers to access your computer.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WESTLAKE, Ohio (WJW) — Police in Westlake said a computer scam artist was so convincing in the story he pitched to an elderly ...

Scammers are targeting LinkedIn users with increasingly sophisticated tactics. Here’s how the most common LinkedIn scams work and how to avoid them.