A Charlotte man was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison for participating in a multi-million-dollar, international tech scam ...
“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 ...
WASHINGTON — A computer crash and a pop up message led to a D.C. woman losing out on more than $640,000 through gold coins and wire transfers, the Metropolitan Police Department said on Wednesday. A ...
If you encounter a pop-up alert from the police while browsing websites, informing you that "your computer has been blocked" due to outstanding fines, do not enter any bank card details, or your bank ...
What starts as a fake refund scam turns into a full-blown counterattack. In this video, the team hacks into a scam operation, ...
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Melting scammer computers

This scammer wasn’t just running refund scripts — he was opening webcams, locking victims out, and stealing from bank ...
A fake Apple email about app-specific passwords claims a $2,990 PayPal charge and urges recipients to call a support number, but it is a phishing scam.
It’s another computer scam, this one growing in popularity because it plays on your computer’s tendency to malfunction, your faith in friendly tech support folk and your desire to return to a computer ...
Scammers use fake PayPal invoices for firearms to steal personal information ...