Tech support scams are becoming more common and the criminals perpetrating them are becoming more sophisticated, according to a new report by security firm Malwarebytes. Tech support scams began to ...

The Hallmark eCard Tech Support Scam is a Trojan from the Trojan.Tech-Support-Scam family that displays a fake Windows alert that states Windows has a system failure and then tries to scare you into ...

Tech support scammers have been inspired by ransomware authors and have come up with lock screen claiming a user’s Windows license has expired. A tech support number is provided, and a fake Microsoft ...

Tech support scams are commonplace. You receive a cold call from someone pretending to be from Microsoft, they attempt to convince you that they have "scanned" your computer and there are viruses ...

Tech-support scammers are using fake blue screen of death (BSOD) messages and a bogus 'Troubleshooter for Windows' application to dupe victims into paying $25 for security software they don't need. In ...

Two years ago, an elderly man with a French accent called the office of E-Racer Tech, a Florida-based tech-support company. His computer was acting up, he said, and he needed a hand. The technician on ...

Jerome Segura has been tracking tech support scams for a year, documenting the ploys he's encountered. But even this one found him unprepared. "Combining a phishing scam with a fake tech support call ...