“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 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 ...

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 ...

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

If you own a phone or a computer, you have almost certainly been the target of a scam. No matter your age, scammers have become more attuned than ever to preying on society’s most vulnerable.

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

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.

It’s a scary scenario: What would you do if you lost access to everything on your computer? KSN sister station WBAY Target 2 News reports tech scams are crashing computers at homes and businesses ...

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 ...

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