Tech support scams cost victims billions each year and often target the most vulnerable users. Scammers use fear and urgency to trick people into giving access to their devices or financial ...

Scammers—some working out of fraudulent call center across the globe—pose as representatives from legitimate companies, such as financial institutions, utility companies, or cryptocurrency exchanges.

Michael Cotter had a problem: “Chargebacks” at his tech support company were too high. The reason for this was not hard to find; people at his company, Tech Live Connect, were scamming Cotter’s fellow ...

Google has warned millions of Gmail users about a common scam impersonating the email service’s technical support team. If ...

Tech support scams seem like old news, but Microsoft issued a warning recently about an expanded phishing campaign where threat actors posed as legitimate technical support staff and even tricked some ...

Two former executives of a call-tracking and analytics company pleaded guilty to concealing a years-long tech support fraud scheme that victimized individuals worldwide. Former CEO Adam Young (from ...

Cameron Nakashima joins producer/host Coralie Chun Matayoshi to discuss what are technical support scams, why older adults are often targeted, what to do immediately in response to a scary pop up, ...

Four people have been arrested over an alleged Microsoft impersonation scam targeting US victims, with cryptocurrency payments routed through Bitcoin ATMs and wallets.