Tech support scammers are modern-day con artists, preying on our deepest technological fears and vulnerabilities. Tammy of Flagler Beach, Florida, recently reached out to us with a concerning email: ...

Aug. 19—(StatePoint) Ever received an unexpected alert by text or email claiming there is a problem with your computer that the sender needs your help to fix? That could very well have been a tech ...

Tech support scams have risen significantly in recent years. According to the Internet Crime Complaint Center, consumers and businesses lost almost a billion dollars ($924,512,658) to tech support ...

Microsoft has started testing a new "scareware blocker" feature for the Edge web browser on Windows PCs, which uses machine learning (ML) to detect tech support scams. Scareware scams (also known as ...

A new version of Chrome coming this month will use Gemini Nano AI to help the browser stop scams that usually appear as annoying pop-ups. Google is adding a dose of AI to the Chrome browser to protect ...

It's reasonable to assume that if you reach out to tech support from a legitimate help website, you'll be speaking with a real customer service representative. However, scammers are hijacking pages ...

Now, consumers will be protected even if they initiate a call to a tech support scammer. Now, consumers will be protected even if they initiate a call to a tech support scammer. is a former news ...

A metro Atlanta senior citizen says his Vanguard retirement and investment accounts were drained by a crook posing as a federal agent. The scammer was pretending to help the victim recover money ...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has finalized amendments to its Telemarketing Sales Rule (TSR), making it easier to protect consumers who are tricked into paying scam tech support companies. The ...

Consumer Investigator Justin Gray with our sister station WSB-TV talked to a man who said his Vanguard accounts were emptied. The victim asked for his identity to be hidden, because he has not even ...