BBB’s Dennis Horton Warns Of Some Current Tech Scams

Dennis Horton is the Director of the Rockford Regional Office of the Better Business Bureau (BBB), joining us twice monthly with the latest information on area scam activity.

On Tuesday morning, Dennis filled us in on a couple of insidious scams working their way through the Rockford area.

The first, called "Formjacking," is a particularly nasty bit of programming code that shares with scammers the information that you fill out on online forms.

The second scam deals with Microsoft's Windows operating systems, specifically Windows 7 and Windows 10.

Dennis also took the time to explain to us how the Do Not Call Registry actually works (rather than how many of us thought it worked):