At 81, Laura McFarling is looking for a job 15 years after retirement because she needs the money.

Lawrence police said a “Robin Hood” hacker stepped in to help stop a scam in action. The victim is a widow, living in Lawrence.

It starts as a classic “PayPal refund” scam—remote access, urgency, and the same old script. But the second they get a foothold, the tables turn: the scammer’s own machine becomes the problem. You get ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Whenever I interview victims of scams, they often express shock about how the bad guy knew so much personal information about them. Yes, their phone, computer, or other device could ...

“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 ...

Hackers on Monday hijacked a mass text messaging service, pushing hundreds of thousands of scam texts to people who subscribe to alerts from New York state, a Catholic charity and a political ...