CINCINNATI (WKRC) — Scammers are posing as tech support representatives from major companies like Microsoft, Google, or Apple, attempting to deceive users into giving up sensitive information. Despite ...

A Charlotte man was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison for participating in a multi-million-dollar, international tech scam ...

Five individuals were arrested in Maharashtra for allegedly running a fake call center to scam U.S. nationals by pretending to be tech support. They coerced victims into buying gift cards, which were ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Zak Doffman writes about security, surveillance and privacy. You have been warned. This threat is now surging and has more than ...

Tech support scams are also on the rise, especially among older Americans. These scams often start with a pop-up warning about a “virus” or “security breach,” followed by a phone number to call for ...

A fake Apple email about app-specific passwords claims a $2,990 PayPal charge and urges recipients to call a support number, but it is a phishing scam.

(WJAR) — Tech support scams are impacting older Americans at a staggering rate. According to the Federal Trade Commission, tech support scams target people 60 and older about five times more often ...

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 ...

While many scams today target people of all ages, older adults are often singled out or suffer the greatest financial harm.

It’s another computer scam, this one growing in popularity because it plays on your computer’s tendency to malfunction, your faith in friendly tech support folk and your desire to return to a computer ...