Don’t Be a Phish: Learn to Recognize Phishing Scams Hundreds of thousands of people are tricked into giving up personal information to criminals daily. And many of these poor folks were tricked into clicking links in phishing emails or text messages. Phishing is a type of deceptive email or message that’s designed to trick you into divulging personal… Read More »
AI Voice Cloning, Real Trouble: How Scammers Can Mimic Anyone’s Voice to Steal Your Money Imagine getting a call that sounded exactly like a friend or family member but it isn’t… it’s a scammer trying to steal your money or your personal information. Well, there’s a new trick scammers are using to scam people to steal money,… Read More »
Wednesday Newsbytes: Scammers Use AI Voice Cloning to Steal 30K from Couple; The End of The Web as We Know It; Is the Clock Ticking on TikTok?; Windows 11 Gets Ads… and more Every day we scan the tech world for interesting news in the world of technology and sometimes from outside the world of technology.… Read More »
Wednesday Newsbytes: Elderly Victim Warns About Tech Support Scams; Windows April Patch Tuesday Fixes 149 Flaws; Copilot May Be the New Clippy; Windows 11 and Edge See Decreased User Share… and more Every day we scan the tech world for interesting news in the world of technology and sometimes from outside the world of technology. Every… Read More »
How to Avoid a Tech Support Scam (Video) They say a picture says a thousand words. If that’s true then a video says a million words. And we’ve got a video of a tech support scam victim telling you exactly how he was scammed. And, it’s true, we have written many articles warning about tech support scams.… Read More »
Scammers Keep On Exploiting Senior Citizens We’ve been doing computer repair work since 2011. In the past 13 years, we have worked on thousands of computers and we’ve seen and heard just about everything. All too frequently we’ve seen computer repair services ripping off senior citizens. Far too often we have learned of people paying hundreds… Read More »