CHICAGO (WLS) -- The FBI warns that calls are on the rise from scammers pretending to be tech support or a computer software company. The hackers get into the victim's computer, essentially taking it ...

"Victims often suffer the loss of entire banking, savings, retirement, or investment accounts under the guise of 'protecting' their assets," the FBI said in a news release.

The numbers are in, and the news is not good. The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) recently published its annual ...

The FBI says investment fraud, business email compromises and tech support scams are cybercrimes doing the most damage in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A retired South Carolina couple lost their life savings after scammers posing as Microsoft and bank employees convinced them to ...

About 660 Americans reported losses tied to the operation, but many more may not have come forward.

The FBI is warning consumers about a sophisticated new scam called “The Phantom Hacker,” which has already stolen more than $1 billion from unsuspecting Americans, many of them senior citizens.The ...

We’ve all gotten those sketchy texts from someone claiming to be your bank, a suspicious call from "Social Security," or a too-good-to-be-true investment tip from a new online friend. While many are ...

Cryptocurrency scams and AI-enabled fraud ranked as the biggest drivers of cyber crime in 2025, according to the FBI’s annual Internet Crime Report, and, while not new, these misdeeds are getting more ...

FBI reports reveal cryptocurrency fraud surpassed eleven billion dollars in 2025 as artificial intelligence complicates modern digital theft.