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 ...

(WJAR) — The FBI is warning of a scam that's drained more than $1 billion dollars from victims since 2024. It’s called the " Phantom Hacker" scam, and there are several layers to it. Initially, a ...

The National Coalition on Aging (NCOA) says the Phantom Hacker Scam will try to target anyone, but they tend to go after ...

WASHINGTON — A Florida man has been arrested for allegedly targeting and scamming an older adult out of her money. Charles Horlesen was arrested on Wednesday in Queen Anne's County for defrauding a ...

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 ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — Technical support scams can happen to anyone, but according to the Pima County Sheriff’s Department (PCSD), about 60% of the victims are elderly. PCSD recently helped a ...

If you stay on the internet long enough, you are bound to come across browser pop-ups. While many of them are just annoying, ranging from advertisements and paywall restrictions to requests to disable ...

The 2025 bipartisan report, Age of Fraud: Scams Facing Our Nation’s Seniors (PDF), spotlights the growing financial threats that older people face. In 2024 alone, fraud and scams cost seniors a ...

Amid increasing levels of mortgage fraud, the FBI has renewed a warning to Americans about an app that could trick victims into losing their entire banking, savings, retirement or investment accounts.

An Arizona woman is headed to prison for nearly a decade after perpetuating a fraudulent foreign worker scam that benefited the North Korean government. Christina Marie Chapman, 50, was sentenced to ...

Seniors are key targets for online and phone scams, with the FBI recording 147,127 scam reports and nearly $5 billion in stolen funds from Americans age 60 and over in 2024. However, the likelihood of ...