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 ...

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 ...

Gyaltse Yolmo, the director of a company that received payments from victims of a large-scale fraud and then sent the money to India, has been jailed for his part in the scam ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WTTV/WXIN – The Federal Trade Commission is ...

(WJAR) — Tech support scams are impacting older Americans at a staggering rate. According to the Federal Trade Commission, tech support scams target people 60 and older about five times more often ...

SHREVEPORT, La. – This new survey from Mastercard shows the most vulnerable group of Americans isn't seniors, but their kids and grandkids. And it's not even close. According to the Federal Trade ...

GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) - A Consumer First Alert: There’s a surge in tech support scams we want people to recognize. Scammers are targeting computer users with fake pop-up messages designed to scare ...

Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning on Thursday issued an alert for Nebraskans to be wary of scams pretending to offer computer tech support. The Attorney General’s Office Mediation Center said it ...

Fraud costs Americans billions every year.