HR is supposed to keep the workplace running smoothly, but sometimes the stories that land on their desks are anything but ordinary. Employees have been fired over shocking misconduct, repeated ...

An elderly Connecticut woman was suspicious from the start. A supposed Apple Support worker told her that her laptop had been ...

New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has busted an international tech-support fraud and extortion racket operating fake call centres in Punjab and Delhi that allegedly targeted US ...

A Chinese national seeking asylum in New York City allegedly attempted to scam an elderly Buffalo-area woman out of $360,000 of her inheritance and life's savings, using an internet fraud scheme while ...

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If you own an Apple computer, you need to be aware of an increasingly common scam going around that could allow a bad actor to gain control of your Mac. It’s known as the “copy-paste” scam, and it has ...

LOUDOUN COUNTY, Va. (7News) — The Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office has arrested a Gaithersburg, Maryland, man in connection with a scheme that allegedly used gold bars to defraud elderly victims.

WHARTON, Texas - A Houston-area couple says a suspected computer hack led to $1,000 disappearing from a Wells Fargo account. After multiple branch visits and an initial denial from the bank claiming ...

A Texas man has pleaded guilty to laundering money from an international technology-support fraud scheme that targeted elderly victims. Chase Harris, 36, of Keller, Texas, pled guilty to one count of ...

DoorDash drivers in Minnesota say they are being targeted by scammers who steal their hard-earned money by pretending to be company support staff – so far losing hundreds in the process. FOX 9’s Corin ...

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 ...

A person walks into an office, says he is from IT and asks to sit at a computer for a quick fix. Most employees would feel relieved. Finally, someone came to solve the tech problem. That trust is ...