It can be exciting to learn that you have unclaimed rewards points, but if this news arrives via an unsolicited text message, ...

Your phone comes with strong built-in spam protection—you just need to turn it on. Here's how to do it on both iPhone and ...

You already know to be wary of suspicious-looking text messages, but what happens if a text arrives from someone who appears ...

Waiting for online shopping purchases to arrive? Stay vigilant against scammers pretending to be the U.S. Postal Service.

Scammers are now using “SMS blasters” to send out up to 100,000 texts per hour to phones that are tricked into thinking the devices are cell towers. Your wireless carrier is powerless to stop them.

According to Robokiller, Americans received 19.2 billion spam and scam texts in April 2025 alone — that comes out to about 63 spam texts for every person. There’s only one group of people who don’t ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Scam texts are flooding our phones and costing some dearly. According to the Federal Trade Commission, the texts scammed Americans out of nearly half a billion dollars last year ...

In a bid to combat bank impersonation scams, Nationwide has become the latest bank to launch its own caller verification ...

Scam text messages are on the rise with criminals impersonating trusted brands like Amazon and UPS. If you’ve received notifications for fake Amazon orders or seen a “missed delivery” alert pop up ...

CONSUMER INVESTIGATOR BRIAN ROCHE HAS THE ANSWER. A VIEWER NAMED CHARLES JUST SENT ME THIS TEXT MESSAGE THROUGH EMAIL. HE POINTED OUT THERE WERE NO MISSPELLINGS, AND SOME OF THE OTHER TELLTALE SIGNS ...

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 ...

Scammers are now sending fake Coinbase authentication codes to targets, complete with phone numbers to contact "support." If you receive one of these texts, and you did not request a 2FA code, don't ...