Imagine working on your computer and getting an alert on your screen—that’s what happened to one viewer wanting to spread the word about this new scam. Viewer message: "My computer locked up with a ...

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 ...

CONSIDERING THIS CHANGE. DEMOCRATS OPPOSE THE MEASURE. AN 86 YEAR-OLD VICTIM OF A COMPUTER SCAM IS GETTING THEIR MONEY BACK THANKS TO BEDFORD POLICE. BEDFORD POLICE SAY THE VICTIM RECEIVED AN ALERT ...

The "Phantom Hacker" scam involves a coordinated team of fraudsters posing as tech support, financial institutions, and U.S. government agencies to convince victims their devices and money are at risk ...

BEREA, Ohio -- A West Street resident lost $89,800 through a computer and telephone scam. The resident told police he was operating his computer Nov. 15 when the screen turned black. A message on the ...

BEREA, Ohio -- A North Rocky River Drive resident lost $9,950 through a computer-phone scam. The resident told police Nov. 12 that she had received a notice on her computer screen that a virus had ...

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