More than $25,000 was recovered for a victim of a mail scam as the result of a recent Minnesota River Valley Drug Task Force investigation involving a ...

An Upper Providence Township man is out of $20,000 after he gave a courier the money to get his computer unlocked. Township Police Chief David Montella said the 66-year-old victim who lives on South ...

Imagine working on your computer and getting an alert on your screen—that’s what happened to one viewer wanting to spread the word about this new scam. Viewer message: "My computer locked up with a ...

In an email we received from Janet D., she shared her recent unsettling experience. Here’s what she described: "I received a pop-up that froze my computer and read, ‘Access to this system is blocked ...

Internet experts call it ransomware, a very particular type of virus that infects computers and restricts users’ access to their files or threatens the permanent destruction of their information ...

WASHINGTON — A computer crash and a pop up message led to a D.C. woman losing out on more than $640,000 through gold coins and wire transfers, the Metropolitan Police Department said on Wednesday. A ...

A 19-year-old Apex man was arrested Sept. 25 and charged with two felonies after an alleged attempted scam was foiled. Avinash C. Patel of Barn Cat Way was charged with attempting to obtain property ...

A suspect in a computer pop-up scam is in Martin County Jail after deputies say he stole $50,000 from a local senior citizen. Weikai Zhang, 43, was arrested in New York and charged with organized ...

ALBANY, N.Y. – A Chinese national living in Albany was accused of scamming a Wyoming County couple out of $20,000. Investigators said he obtained the cash from an elderly couple in the town of Java ...