Today, the FBI warned about courier services being used to collect money and valuables from victims of tech support and government impersonation scams. This public service announcement follows a surge ...
NEW YORK — A Brooklyn woman was scammed out of $100,000 in an elaborate scheme involving a frozen computer, an in-person meeting and a secret code word. As police search for the alleged scammer, the ...
FBI warns of a surge in tech support scams targeting the elderly across the United States and urging victims to dispatch cash concealed within magazines or similar items through shipping firms. While ...
A federal court in Florida has temporarily shut down two “massive” telemarketing operations that allegedly conned tens of thousands of consumers out of millions of dollars by tricking them into fixing ...
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) can now go after scammers posing as tech support providers even if it's the consumer who called them up. It has just approved amendments to its Telemarketing Sales ...
Fake tech support scams have emerged after the CrowdStrike outage disrupted systems worldwide. The outage was caused by a defective software update from CrowdStrike, not a cyberattack. CrowdStrike ...
Indeed, tech support scams often try to scare unsuspecting victims into thinking that something is wrong with their computer. This can include displaying a pop-up on a browser that claims the PC has ...
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CHICAGO – For consumers who turn over control of their computers to remote technicians online, the fix may already be in. A growing number of remote tech support scams are popping up, in which users ...
In today’s digital age, financial fraud has evolved to become more sophisticated and prevalent than ever before. CommunityAmerica Credit Union provides you with the information and resources needed to ...
Ever received an unexpected alert by text or email claiming there is a problem with your computer that the sender needs your help to fix? That could very well have been a tech support scam. The ...
SCAM THAT TARGETED THEM THROUGH THEIR COMPUTER SCAMS THAT TARGET YOU AND THREATEN YOU THROUGH YOUR COMPUTER. ARE SHOWING NO SIGNS OF SLOWING DOWN. FOLKS. IN FACT, COMPUTER THREAT SCAMS WERE MY NUMBER ...