This past week, many agencies celebrated "Safer Internet Day" by sharing tips to help us all be mindful of the importance of staying alert to potential safety and fraud issues online. One area that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image Credit: Shutterstock. A fake computer alert can be the first move in a scam that ends with someone moving their own ...

A Charlotte man was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison for participating in a multi-million-dollar, international tech scam that mostly targeted elderly victims with fake online pop-up ads, federal ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - The next time you believe your computer has a virus, stop and think twice before paying to solve the problem. The Federal Trade Commission put out a warning about tech support ...

Tech support scams cost victims billions each year and often target the most vulnerable users. Scammers use fear and urgency to trick people into giving access to their devices or financial ...

Using the 'Click Fix Scam' fraudsters has been developed a 'sophisticated' method trick 'normal people' into thinking they ...

You've seen CAPTCHA checks everywhere. You click a box. You move on. No big deal. Now imagine that same box asking you to press a few keys on your keyboard. It might tell you to open a command window ...

Xenia FISH Pantry celebrates county’s gift of building, and how it will help I’ve written about this countless times over the years, but the scammers don’t stop, so I won’t stop bringing it up. In my ...