Once upon a time, when the phone rang it was either someone you knew or a wrong number. Times have changed, unfortunately, ...

Whether you've fallen for text message scams in the past or even just side-eyed a slightly suspicious text, there's no reason to feel embarrassed—according to the FTC, text message scams shook ...

If you've received an innocent-sounding text from a number you don't recognize, it's not actually innocent. It's likely the start of a "wrong phone number" scam, which is increasingly being used to ...

The highest numbers of scams were in California, Florida and Texas. Senior citizens lost almost $1 billion in scams in 2020, according to an FBI report released this week. A total of 105,301 people ...

American consumers lost a reported $470 million last year to scams that started with fraudulent text messages, according to Federal Trade Commission data released Wednesday. The losses marked a 26% ...