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As the 2026 back-to-school season approaches, parents, students, and guardians are spending more time shopping for school supplies, uniforms, electronics, textbooks, accommodation, and other essentials. Unfortunately, scammers also take advantage of this busy period. Fake online stores, misleading advertisements, phishing messages, scholarship scams, and fraudulent payment requests can make back-to-school shopping risky. The good news…

A new online shopping scam is targeting people searching for discounted Nintendo Switch 2 consoles. The scam uses attractive marketplace listings, unusually low prices, and instructions telling potential buyers to contact the seller by text message before purchasing. Recent reports describe Switch 2 listings on marketplaces such as Whatnot that advertise unusually cheap consoles and…

ClickFix scams are a form of social engineering that trick people into performing actions that can expose their computers to malware. Instead of simply asking victims to download a suspicious file, scammers may use fake CAPTCHA tests, browser errors, security alerts, or software-update messages to persuade users to copy and run commands. The technique has…