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Naperville police caution against CAPTCHA scam

Summary by NCTV17
The Naperville Police Department is warning residents to be wary of CAPTCHA scams. The department shared information from the Federal Trade Commission on the topic in a Facebook post on Thursday. Identifying the scam The FTC says a new phishing scam uses what look like CAPTCHA requests, which are used to prove users are not robots on many sites. Real CAPTCHA tasks are image- or text-based, asking users to do tasks like matching pictures of traff…
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NCTV17 broke the news on Monday, June 22, 2026.
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