My 76-year old mom is an incredibly tech-savvy senior who commands her gadgets more like a Millennial than someone born the same year the ballpoint pen was invented. She also has an array of built-in ...

FBI investigation shuts down Indian call centers behind $48M in scams. Learn how social engineering, amygdala hijacks, ...

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 ...

The "Microsoft tech support" scam is now the biggest telephone ripoff in Canada — but as B.C. man Jakob Dulisse found, callers are using increasingly nasty tactics to steal our money. Dulisse of ...

Police have busted an international tech support scam operation alleged to have defrauded 330 elderly Canadian victims out of an estimated $500k, arresting an Ontario man accused of masterminding the ...

EDMONTON – Edmonton police are warning computer owners about a scam involving people claiming to be from Microsoft’s technical support department. An 84-year-old Edmonton man has lost $175,000 over ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan. — Computers have become an essential part of this tech-driven world. They can be our best friends or our worst enemies. So much information and data is stored within them that ...

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Cybercriminals are abusing Twitter via tech support scams, command-and-control (C&C) operations and data exfiltration, with criminals found using fake Twitter accounts to spoof those of legitimate ...

Microsoft released its 2021 Global Tech Support Scam Research report, which shows that 65 percent of Canadian adults were exposed to a tech support scam. These types of scams involve fraudsters faking ...

TORONTO – Fake tech support phone scams are nothing new to Jan Miller. The Victoria, B.C., resident has been receiving calls from scammers claiming to be with Microsoft for years. But this week the ...