Tech support scams cost victims billions each year and often target the most vulnerable users. Scammers use fear and urgency ...

Microsoft has worked with law enforcement in India and Japan to take down a scam network that has been targeting the elderly in Japan. Pop-up scams pretending to be Microsoft Working with India’s ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Last week, Microsoft announced that it would no longer use ...

A U.S. federal court has shut down what the Federal Trade Commission says was a fake tech-support firm that posed as Facebook and Microsoft and tricked consumers into paying up to $600 for bogus ...

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 ...

An Indian man, identified as Gaurav Trivedi from Uttar Pradesh's Raebareli, has been accused of running a fake Microsoft tech support scam from his apartment. The allegations emerged after an X user ...

A local man thought there was a problem with his computer, then when he tried tech support, he ended up falling for an elaborate scheme that cost him big time. Tech support scams have sadly become so ...

GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) - A Consumer First Alert: There’s a surge in tech support scams we want people to recognize. Scammers are targeting computer users with fake pop-up messages designed to scare ...

The BBB said search engine software companies should set standards for advertising tech support links. Microsoft, for example, has taken steps to stop pop-up viruses. Some arrests have been reported ...

David Welles, a retired lawyer, had been struggling with his new iPad for hours when he tried to call tech support. But instead of dialing Microsoft to help him connect his email, the phone number he ...