The Windsor police financial crimes unit says there's been a new twist on an old computer scam: The fraudster now claims to be a Windsor police officer assigned to financial crimes. It’s the latest ...

The RCMP Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre in North Bay says the incidence of computer scamming is on the rise across the country, including northeastern Ontario. The centre blames the increased number of ...

Saskatoon police say a scammer is attempting to defraud people by telling them they have a computer virus when they really don’t. Police say victims are receiving unsolicited phone calls from someone ...

KELOWNA — The so-called Microsoft scam is making the rounds in the Okanagan again. The ruse involves someone calling on the phone claiming to represent a large computer company such as Microsoft. The ...

Ontario Provincial Police are investigating after a Norfolk County resident was cheated out of $20,000 by a scammer who called him to say his computer had a virus. Police say the victim contacted them ...

“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 ...

Halton police are asking residents to be wary of who they give their personal information out to after scam artists recently contacted Halton residents posing as representatives of a computer repair ...

A Halifax man is speaking out after being targeted by two computer-related scams in the past month. Joseph Nyemah says he wants others to know what happened to him so that they may avoid falling ...

A senior from Perth County has lost $320,000 because of a computer pop-up scam, police say. Perth County Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) are now asking the public for help identifying the suspects who ...

Vancouver police have issued a warning about an online extortion scam involving malware that charges a fee for unlocking your computer. Police said in a release that the computer is locked with a ...

You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. WHITBY, Ont. — Police are warning about a computer scam after two Durham Region residents lost more than ...