Online scams alone are up 50%. These include pop-up ads on social media that prompt users to click and potentially make purchases.

“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 ...

Racked by grief after the death of her ex-husband, Belinda Guy was sifting through his belongings at home when she discovered more than 100 gift cards worth around $40,000. She was shocked.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WESTLAKE, Ohio (WJW) — Police in Westlake said a computer scam artist was so convincing in the story he pitched to an elderly ...

Scammers are getting smarter in their efforts to get your personal information. Between the phone calls, emails and even text messages, you need to remain on guard because you could be caught in a ...

It feels awful to be scammed. Unnerving to have a person's voice suddenly yelling at you right out of your computer. And you can't make it stop. "You've been hacked!" "You have pornographic material ...

Fraud costs Americans billions every year.

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WILLMAR - Local law enforcement warns of a phone scam sweeping the area in which the caller claims to be from Microsoft and asks for access to computer files and money to repair a virus. A number of ...

Rose Okumura is a voice actor and a content creator. Now she's using her skills to turn to the tables on annoying telephone scammers. It's called scam baiting, which Collins English Dictionary defines ...

Ikeja Computer Village, Nigeria’s largest technology and phone trading hub in Lagos State, has long been known as the heartbeat of the country’s gadget ...