A retired lawyer lost the money in a tech support scam, a type of online fraud that is surging. His bank said it couldn't ...

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 ...

If you’re an honest person, it may be difficult for you to believe that someone would scam you. Internet scammers can be ...

Threat actors are generating real Apple support tickets to phish two-factor authentication (2FA) codes and take over iCloud ...

A local man thought there was a problem with his computer, then when he tried tech support, he ended up falling for an ...

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 ...

Seniors are frequent targets for fraud due to savings and tech gaps. Learn the most common scams and how older adults can ...

In an email we received from Janet D., she shared her recent unsettling experience. Here’s what she described: "I received a pop-up that froze my computer and read, ‘Access to this system is blocked ...

Older Americans continued to lose billions of dollars to fraud in 2024, with scams increasingly exploiting trust, urgency and ...

Fraud losses reported by people 60 and older climbed to nearly $2.4 billion in 2024, quadrupling since 2020 Investment ...

Bottom line: A recent warning from Malwarebytes explains that users searching for tech support phone numbers can encounter fake contact information, even when visiting the official websites of major ...