Scammers are hijacking Facebook and Instagram accounts to sell phantom cars, and Meta is still playing catch-up. It's a ...
An individual posing as a Coinbase help desk worker allegedly stole more than $2 million in cryptocurrency from users over ...
One disturbing scam involves crooks who impersonate officials to convince consumers that they must withdraw money from ...
A Westminster man pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud related to a technical support scam, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland. On Thursday, officials ...
David Welles, a retired lawyer, had been struggling with his new iPad for hours when he tried to call tech support. But instead of dialing Microsoft to help him connect his email, the phone number he ...
GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) - A Consumer First Alert: There’s a surge in tech support scams we want people to recognize. Scammers are targeting computer users with fake pop-up messages designed to scare ...
A retired lawyer lost the money in a tech support scam, a type of online fraud that is surging. Citibank said it couldn’t recover the funds, which criminals wired from inside his account. David Welles ...
Scammers love to seed the internet with fake customer service numbers in order to lure in unsuspecting victims who are just trying to fix something wrong in their life. Con artists have done it to ...
New attack poisons sources AI chatbots use for content. Public sites like YouTube and Yelp abused to host spam links. AI answers can surface poisoned content and put users at risk. Cybercriminals are ...
It’s a term used to describe a major global cyberscam in which criminals entrap victims by first sending them seemingly innocent questions via text, Instagram, OKCupid, or some other messaging ...
FBI officials in Southern California and across the nation are warning the public of a new type of scam in which tech-savvy con-artists have been creating fake photos and videos to convince victims ...