Other reports from the two-week period include a fake FBI call, a stolen $14,110 check, felony theft and computer hacking.

Hackers are using this insidious scam to get unwitting victims to install malware themselves.

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image Credit: Shutterstock. A fake computer alert can be the first move in a scam that ends with someone moving their own ...

A Chinese asylum seeker living in NYC allegedly targeted an elderly woman in a $360,000 tech support scam involving fake IRS ...

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A teenager travelled 70 miles to track down the eBay scammers who had tricked him into mailing them his £650 laptop. Blake Walker only realised he had been duped after he’d posted the Apple MacBook to ...

The scheme begins with fake fraud alerts before shifting to a FaceTime call, where victims are tricked into exposing sensitive banking information.

LinkedIn has built its reputation as the world's most trusted professional network, with over 1.3 million members globally. Yet, LinkedIn scams have surged in recent years, with the platform detecting ...

A Moran Avenue resident was nearly scammed out of $36,500 after she received a pop-up message on her computer that claimed it was compromised, according to the Princeton Police Department. The victim, ...

You've seen CAPTCHA checks everywhere. You click a box. You move on. No big deal. Now imagine that same box asking you to press a few keys on your keyboard. It might tell you to open a command window ...