This past week, many agencies celebrated "Safer Internet Day" by sharing tips to help us all be mindful of the importance of staying alert to potential safety and fraud issues online. One area that ...

Even if you've never fallen victim to a tech support scam, you've likely been targeted. Have you ever gotten a pop-up, or a cascading series of pop-ups that crowd your entire screen, warning you that ...

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 ...

The "Phantom Hacker" scam involves a coordinated team of fraudsters posing as tech support, financial institutions, and U.S. government agencies to convince victims their devices and money are at risk ...

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 ...

Microsoft has worked with law enforcement in India and Japan to take down a scam network that has been targeting the elderly in Japan. Pop-up scams pretending to be Microsoft Working with India’s ...