A fake computer alert can be the first move in a scam that ends with someone moving their own retirement money out of reach.

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HASTINGS, Neb. (KSNB) - As college students are headed back to school and families are looking for new computers to start out the school year, there are plenty of scam tactics to look out for when ...

After an investigation, police determined that the employee had embezzled more than $40,000 from Hayfield Secondary School.

“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 ...

A Charlotte man was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison for participating in a multi-million-dollar, international tech scam that mostly targeted elderly victims with fake online pop-up ads, federal ...

Urgent renewal emails and huge discounts figures are used to pressure people to hand over their data ...

It’s a scary scenario: What would you do if you lost access to everything on your computer? KSN sister station WBAY Target 2 News reports tech scams are crashing computers at homes and businesses ...

TRICKS THEY ARE USING TO GET YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION. YOU TURN ON YOUR LAPTOP OR YOUR PERSONAL COMPUTER, AND ALL OF A SUDDEN YOU SEE A VERY FRIGHTENING MESSAGE. SOMETIMES WITH A BLARING AUDIBLE ...

If you own a phone or a computer, you have almost certainly been the target of a scam. No matter your age, scammers have become more attuned than ever to preying on society’s most vulnerable.