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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...