Scam calls and texts are flooding phones across Louisiana at an alarming rate, and experts warn the trend is only ...

Text or short message service (SMS) scams decreased significantly by 86.6% in 2025, as scammers shifted to call-based scams ...

Fraudsters are increasingly using advanced technology like crypto and AI to dupe victims.

A Google report on Thursday said that iPhone users are more likely to receive scam texts and calls than Android users, thanks to Google's more advanced protections built into the operating system, ...

Scam texts relating to tolls and deliveries have made Chinese scammers billions. US-based mules are paid to max out credit cards digitally cloned from stolen data. The luxury goods purchased with ...

Investigators say scam toll and postal texts are part of a billion-dollar phishing operation run by criminal networks in China. Fraudsters use SIM farms, phishing sites and gig “mules” to load stolen ...

If your phone has been lost (or stolen), you probably feel like you have enough to worry about – stolen data, identity theft, and possibly replacing the device itself. However, there’s one more thing ...

TORONTO, Oct. 27, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Canadians are facing a flood of scam attempts, with one in three reporting fraudulent job or CRA-related texts in the past three months alone, according to ...

Michelle Ehrhardt is Lifehacker's Associate Tech Editor. She has a bachelor's degree in history from Earlham College, where she also double majored in theatre. She also holds an MFA in game design ...

NEW YORK, March 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Americans received a whopping 225 billion robotexts, a 157% increase from 2021 and the most significant increase on record, according to Robokiller's annual ...

MINNEAPOLIS — If you've started getting more and more suspicious text messages about bogus deliveries, giveaways, or otherwise urging you to click on a link, you're far from alone. Wireless carriers, ...

As this holiday season nears its end, Illinois Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias issued a warning Tuesday about text scams. Giannoulias urged Illinois residents to watch for fraudulent text messages that ...