The "Phantom Hacker" scam involves a coordinated team of fraudsters posing as tech support, financial institutions, and U.S. government agencies to convinc ...

D.C. police have arrested two California residents accused of scamming a local woman out of more than $640,000 through a ...

Tech support fraud occurs when the fraudster claims to be associated with a computer software or security company, or even a cable or Internet company, offering technical support to the victim.

The article 'Prolific Scam' Targeting Residents In Walnut Creek: Police appeared first on Walnut Creek Patch. For the second ...

When 73-year-old Evelyn received an unexpected text from someone claiming to be a tech billionaire in desperate need of help, ...

Regulations protecting people from telemarketing scams now cover tech support scams, which have cost victims hundreds of millions of dollars in recent years. In a 4-1 vote, the Federal Trade ...

Personal Finance Tech support scams are a trend. Learn how to avoid them, find help if you’re a victim By Roxanne Doss Special to The Star June 12, 2024 5:00 AM ...

For instance, when I searched “Norton antivirus tech support,” the first three links are ads that prominently use the word Norton, even though they have nothing to do with the software company.

It was all a scam. We want to help you spot one of these tech support scams. Here is one message as it appears (we’ve removed the phone number): YOUR COMPUTER HAS BEEN LOCKED UP.

In a FOX23 Investigation, Tulsa's Investigative Reporter Janna Clark learned what you need to know about a scam that tricks people into thinking they’re receiving IT technical support for their ...

Tech support scams resulted in almost $1 billion in losses, with new “ Phantom Hacker ” schemes where criminals impersonate support staff, government officials and bankers in a single, multi ...

A new tech support scam Trojan is actively being distributed that allows the malware developers to remotely execute commands on an infected computer. Lawrence Abrams September 28, 2016 12:46 PM 4 ...