YOU WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE SO YOU DON’T FALL FOR IT. FOLKS HAVE REPEATEDLY TOLD YOU ABOUT THESE POP UP MESSAGES ON YOUR COMPUTER, BUT PEOPLE ARE STILL FALLING FOR THIS SCAM AND YOU CAN UNDERSTAND WHY ONCE ...

You're browsing different websites when suddenly a pop-up window declares, “Your computer was locked” and tells you to call “Windows engineering” at a toll ...

A Charlotte man was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison for participating in a multi-million-dollar, international tech scam that mostly targeted elderly victims with fake online pop-up ads, federal ...

HE EXPLAINS HOW TO SPOT IT. FOLKS, STOP AND THINK ABOUT ALL THE PERSONAL INFORMATION THAT MAY BE CONTAINED IN YOUR COMPUTER. IT’S A TREASURE TROVE FOR SCAMMERS AND THAT’S WHY COMPUTER ACCESS SCAMS ARE ...

In my computer service business, we regularly get calls from users that have let a remote scammer onto their computer. Sometimes they even pay the scammer before realizing it was a scam, or they pay ...

CANANDAIGUA, N.Y. – New York State Police from SP Canandaigua are warning the public about a new computer scam. Officials gave the following description of the scam on their website: “When logging on ...

NEW YORK — A Brooklyn woman was scammed out of $100,000 in an elaborate scheme involving a frozen computer, an in-person meeting and a secret code word. As police search for the alleged scammer, the ...

Sandra Jung had plans for May 8. The 86-year-old North Little Rock resident was going to clean the house that she shares with her longtime partner, Rodney Nicholson, whose daughter was arriving the ...

Today’s Sound Off concerns a new scam making the rounds: Dear Heloise: I opened my computer this afternoon and found an online bill from a well-known computer repair company. It had my name and ...