Debt Collection and SNAP Scams Join Top Fraud Threats Facing Vermonters. Vermont Business Magazine Vermonters made a total of 3,982 scam reports to the Attorney General’s Consum ...

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 support scam. The ...

Steve J. Bernas, president and CEO of BBB says, "In many years, we have never seen anywhere near this type of increase. These ...

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 ...

Phyllis Weisberg, 90, never thought she’d fall for a scam. Though widowed and living alone, she maintained robust social connections and confidently used her mobile phone and laptop computer to ...

GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) - A Consumer First Alert: There’s a surge in tech support scams we want people to recognize. Scammers are targeting computer users with fake pop-up messages designed to scare ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WTTV/WXIN – The Federal Trade Commission is ...

Tech-support scams cost consumers hundreds of millions of dollars annually. Seniors are particular targets of the crooks, sometimes losing their life savings. The scam often starts with a call, email, ...

Older Americans continued to lose billions of dollars to fraud in 2024, with scams increasingly exploiting trust, urgency and new technologies. The Federal Trade Commission said impostor scams, ...