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 ...

Holiday scam robocalls and robotexts are surging nationwide, with scammers posing as charities, delivery services, and ...

The Department of Homeland Security recently said that Chinese criminal gangs have made more than $1 billion from scams directed at US phone numbers. While phone-based scams once relied on random ...

Have you received a text saying you owe money for driving through a toll booth and not paying? Or maybe you've received a message from what seems to be the Internal Revenue Service telling you that ...

The number of job scams coming through text messages has increased in recent years, as has the amount of money Americans have lost to those scams. In a recent survey, Resume.org found that younger ...

Each year in my work as a scams expert, I see variations of the same old tricks. But with further technological innovations, ...

Taxpayers who were tricked as a result of a traditional investment scam may be entitled to tax relief. However, taxpayers who lost money through personal scams, such as romance or false kidnapping ...

Crypto fraud revenue is estimated to have hit record levels last year amid a surge in so-called romance scams as cybercriminals leverage artificial intelligence and become more organized, blockchain ...

Android phones, and especially Pixel phones, are better at protecting consumers against scams than iPhone users, Google's Android team said in a report released on Thursday to mark the end of ...

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