“Message scam losses are on the rise,” is the headline in a recent edition of the AARP Bulletin. To be sure, in every single AARP publication as well as in Consumer Reports and other magazines, there ...

It feels awful to be scammed. Unnerving to have a person's voice suddenly yelling at you right out of your computer. And you can't make it stop. "You've been hacked!" "You have pornographic material ...

A bipartisan group of lawmakers who chair the state House and Senate transportation committees are warning the public of text and email scams impersonating the state Department of Transportation, the ...

Google is going to court to help put an end to, or at least limit, the prevalence of phishing scams over text message. Scam texts have been a nuisance for a long time, but they've become increasingly ...

The scale of the threat is reflected in consumer anxiety; search queries for “online tracking scams,” “Christmas giveaway texts,” and “brand-associated scam texts” have surged by 5,000% this month ...

YORK COUNTY, S.C. — The York County Sheriff’s Office has issued a warning about a new text message scam that involves a fake one-time password (OTP) for a withdrawal you didn’t initiate. This scam is ...

If you feel like you’re being bombarded by scam calls on your smartphone or through other digital means, you’re not alone. Financial fraud and scams are getting rampant in India, with AI and deepfake ...