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Valentine's Day offers Internet con artists a great cover for their illegal craft: Using love as a lure, scammers sweet-talk their victims out of personal information the can use to rob you. Here's what you need to know to avoid falling for a fraud.

It is easy to forget that the cigarette box-sized device in your pocket is a computer more powerful than the one that sent Apollo 11 to the moon. Smartphones, tablets and laptops now hold some of our most priceless assets. But let's put a price on them: The value of a wired American's digital life averages nearly $55,000, and it's at risk.

If you've ever landed on a web page that supposedly scanned your computer, said it was infected and tried to sell you anti-virus software, you've had a brush with "scareware." Scareware is malicious software designed to scare consumers into buying something they don't need by masquerading as a...

The Internet Crime Complaint Center's latest scam alert included too much to cover in one story, so we did one yesterday, while today's focuses on phony, Trojan-laden emails from the FBI and an email campaign targeting victims with an online blackmail scheme. Alerts by the IC3, a partnership...

Two people involved with an international cybercrime operation that raked in millions with 'scareware' -- computer programs that pop up with fake warnings of badware infection, then bully users into paying for a bogus fix -- settled with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission for $8 million, the agency...

A new e-mail phishing scam is making its rounds among users of the professional networking site LinkedIn. The Better Business Bureau and Cisco are reporting that LinkedIn users have received suspicious e-mails indicating they have new invitations to connect and new messages awaiting their...

If your mailbox has been bombed the last couple of weeks by e-mails appearing to be from FedEx and claiming a package sent to you has gone undelivered, blame Zeus, king of criminal bots, for helping to release another Kraken on the Internet. The bogus spam e-mails are still finding their way into...

A new Facebook button that many of the social network's users have been craving has cropped up and is showing in random status updates urging consumers to get it so they can "dislike" other posts. While it may look tempting -- demand for a 'dislike' option has been surging for a while among the...

In an IPO market as finicky as this one, the contemporary adage that any publicity is good publicity doesn't hold. Not when your Web traffic drops suddenly and you've been rated the worst Internet company, and especially not when the CEO may have been caught fudging the facts.

Young adults aged 18-24 take almost twice as long to discover identity theft than those in other age groups, says a warning from the Denver/Boulder Better Business Bureau to college students. One key finding in Javelin Strategy's Fraud Survey Report from this year, quoted by the bureau in its...