A Charlotte man was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison for participating in a multi-million-dollar, international tech scam ...
GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan. — Computers have become an essential part of this tech-driven world. They can be our best friends or our worst enemies. So much information and data is stored within them that ...
The U.S. Attorney’s Office has recovered and returned approximately $328,573 to a victim of a computer support scam in Connecticut, federal officials said. “A computer support scam is a type of fraud ...
CHICAGO – For consumers who turn over control of their computers to remote technicians online, the fix may already be in. A growing number of remote tech support scams are popping up, in which users ...
Approximately $328,573 was returned to an elderly Connecticut woman who fell victim to a computer support scheme last February. A computer support scam involves an alert appearing on a victim’s ...
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 ...
CONSIDERING THIS CHANGE. DEMOCRATS OPPOSE THE MEASURE. AN 86 YEAR-OLD VICTIM OF A COMPUTER SCAM IS GETTING THEIR MONEY BACK THANKS TO BEDFORD POLICE. BEDFORD POLICE SAY THE VICTIM RECEIVED AN ALERT ...
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A local man thought there was a problem with his computer, then when he tried tech support, he ended up falling for an elaborate scheme that cost him big time. Tech support scams have sadly become so ...
A Swindon man has been jailed after admitting to laundering more than half a million pounds in an elaborate international ...
Internet scams are a booming business. According to the most current crime report from the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 2023, the United States saw the highest number of complaints—nearly 3.8 ...
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 ...