A fake computer alert can be the first move in a scam that ends with someone moving their own retirement money out of reach.

Tech support scammers are modern-day con artists, preying on our deepest technological fears and vulnerabilities. Tammy of Flagler Beach, Florida, recently reached out to us with a concerning email: ...

The FBI warns that the Silent Ransom Group is targeting law firms by posing as IT support workers, even showing up in person ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A metro Atlanta senior citizen says his Vanguard retirement and investment accounts were drained by a crook posing as a federal ...

Q: When I searched Google for the tech support number for Norton Antivirus, the person that answered sounded extremely foreign and wanted my credit card number, so I hung up. How can I get the real ...

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 ...

GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) - You may get a pop-up that looks like a security warning, telling you that there’s a major issue with your computer. However, you shouldn’t follow the directions on the screen.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) - The old “Microsoft Tech Support” scam has a new twist. Nowadays, to make it more convincing, scammers tie in the Treasury Department and blast a message on your computer ...

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 ...

Microsoft has worked with law enforcement in India and Japan to take down a scam network that has been targeting the elderly in Japan. Pop-up scams pretending to be Microsoft Working with India’s ...