Pity the poor employees of companies like “Windows Technical Support”—scammers who make money by “fixing” computers that were never broken in the first place. For the people who pose as Windows ...

A Madison police officer helped a woman restore deleted files that a phone scammer managed to delete off her computer Aug. 18, Madison police said. A 53-year-old Madison woman lost some of her ...

Pierogi from Scammer Payback on YouTube joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about scams and scambaiting. Why do scammers ask victims to buy gift cards? What are some of the biggest ...