A Charlotte man was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison for participating in a multi-million-dollar, international tech scam that mostly targeted elderly victims with fake online pop-up ads, federal ...

Text message scam attempts have increased by 50 percent in the past year, with young adults experiencing the sharpest rise of any age group. That’s one of several important findings in the 2025 Cyber ...

“Message scam losses are on the rise,” is the headline in a recent edition of the AARP Bulletin. To be sure, in every single AARP publication as well as in Consumer Reports and other magazines, there ...

A fake computer alert can be the first move in a scam that ends with someone moving their own retirement money out of reach. The scheme is known as the "Phantom Hacker" scam. It does not usually begin ...