Phyllis Weisberg, 90, never thought she’d fall for a scam. Though widowed and living alone, she maintained robust social connections and confidently used her mobile phone and laptop computer to ...

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: ...

A metro Atlanta senior citizen says his Vanguard retirement and investment accounts were drained by a crook posing as a federal agent. The scammer was pretending to help the victim recover money ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tech support scams have risen significantly in recent years. According to the Internet Crime Complaint Center, consumers and businesses lost almost a billion dollars ($924,512,658) to tech support ...

PHOENIX — Two citizens of India were recently indicted in connection with a tech support scam that targeted elderly Arizona victims, authorities announced Monday. Ahmed Maqbul Syed, 57, and Rupesh ...

GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) - A message pops up on your computer: “Your computer has been locked up.” “A scare tactic on this fake pop-up that looks like a virus,” says Nathan Drager, president of Quantum ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — An Orlando man is out $2,500 after he fell for a tech support scam. It turns out the scammers who convinced him to buy gift cards didn’t get away with any money, but the victim still ...

Japanese police placed fake payment cards in convenience stores to protect the elderly targeted by tech support scams or unpaid money fraud. The cards are labeled "Virus Trojan Horse Removal Payment ...