In my computer service business, we regularly get calls from users that have been scammed. Some have let a remote scammer onto their computer and get their data/passwords stolen, while some get taken ...

“Message scam losses are on the rise,” is the headline in a recent edition of the AARP Bulletin. To be sure, in every single AARP publication as well as in Consumer Reports and other magazines, there ...

BEREA, Ohio -- A North Rocky River Drive resident lost $9,950 through a computer-phone scam. The resident told police Nov. 12 that she had received a notice on her computer screen that a virus had ...

Mar. 7—About five years ago, Steve Conley's mother almost got scammed. A scammer claiming to be her grandson said he was in jail in Florida. She needed to send $5,000 in bail money, and right away, he ...

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 ...