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'Tech Support' Was a Scam, Aimed Mostly at Seniors

'Tech Support' Was a Scam, Aimed Mostly at Seniors

Everyone has seen the pop-up and text ads promising free tech support, anti-virus and other services. If you dismissed them as scams, you were probably right. And now, one of the larger perpetrators of these come-ons has met his match. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) today filed a proposed

Cagey Seniors Fall for Tech Support Scams Less Often than Younger Consumers

Cagey Seniors Fall for Tech Support Scams Less Often than Younger Consumers

Tech support scams continue to infest the internet but a Microsoft survey finds that consumers aren’t falling for the scams as readily as they once did. In particular, baby boomers are less likely to get roped in than younger consumers. To put it bluntly, it appears to be overconfident