It feels awful to be scammed. Unnerving to have a person's voice suddenly yelling at you right out of your computer. And you can't make it stop. "You've been hacked!" "You have pornographic material ...

“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 ...

NORTH MANKATO — More than $25,000 was recovered for a victim of a mail scam as the result of a recent Minnesota River Valley Drug Task Force investigation involving a suspicious package sent to a ...

The Cincinnati office of the FBI issued a warning Thursday about a computer virus being used to extort money from area residents. The virus is called Reveton. This computer virus can install itself ...

American consumers lost a total of $2.1 billion to scams on social media last year, according to the Federal Trade Commission ...

Firewalls scan data sent to your computer for malware and attempt to block files or other data they deem suspicious. Like ...

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 ...

Scammers are getting sneakier, so we have to be smarter. Here’s how.