A new phone number text messaging scam has been making the rounds on smartphones. This sneaky scam is pretty clever. Scammers are getting better by the day at fooling people into thinking they're ...

There has been an 86% year-over-year surge in U.S. adults targeted by phone, email and text scams, and text scams have flourished. A CNET report says 82% of Americans now get at least one scam text ...

Text messages that come to your phone as spam messages are a nuisance at best and a risk to your personal security at worst. But somewhere in between lies a unique type of spam text message that ...

HINGHAM − Police are alerting residents to watch out for text and phone scams after a 95-year-old resident lost $2,000 in a scam that started with an unsolicited text message. Police say that on Oct.

Technology offers so many convenient ways to keep in touch with friends and family, and manage our daily lives: cell phone calls, emails, texts, social media, and beyond. But it also allows would-be ...

In an age of constant communication, receiving phone calls or messages from unknown numbers has become increasingly common. Whether it's a missed call from an unfamiliar number, a potential scam or a ...

Stop! Don’t reply “Stop” or Stop2End to any more infernal political text messages asking you to take a poll, click a link, or donate. That’s supposed to work, but it’s not. Just ask anyone who has ...