“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 ...

In my computer service business, we regularly get calls from users that have been scammed. Some have let a remote scammer onto their computer and get their data/passwords stolen, while some get taken ...

TRICKS THEY ARE USING TO GET YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION. YOU TURN ON YOUR LAPTOP OR YOUR PERSONAL COMPUTER, AND ALL OF A SUDDEN YOU SEE A VERY FRIGHTENING MESSAGE. SOMETIMES WITH A BLARING AUDIBLE ...

It feels awful to be scammed. Unnerving to have a person's voice suddenly yelling at you right out of your computer. And you can't make it stop. "You've been hacked!" "You have pornographic material ...

Scam of the Week generally runs every Tuesday. Readers are welcome to contact reporter Jake Hutchison to report scams and potential scams they have come in contact with by calling 828-1329 or via ...