How scammers can infect our lives through our computers

How scammers can infect our lives through our computers

“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 are scam warnings. Daily, on our computers and our smartphones, we find invoices from people and places we have never ever heard of. We’ve all heard the stories of so-called “digital friends” that women and men, especially seniors, but young people …