Like all scams, this one plays on emotion: notably, the excitement of getting lucky and winning big. You're lured in with a ...

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 ...

Texting and messaging scams have increased 50% in the past year, with Gen Z being hit the hardest, and lower income households and Black Americans being disproportionately affected, according to a new ...

HAMPTON ROADS, Va. (WAVY) — Scammers will do anything to get your money or personal information. A popular scam that has been making the rounds involves a text message from an unknown number, and an ...

Last month, we looked at how scammers can gain access to your phone number and how data breaches and phishing campaigns could make obtaining it easy. In this blogpost, we’ll focus more on why phone ...

(WJAR) — Scammers love stealing our personal information, and our cell phone numbers have become extremely valuable. Bentley University professor and creator of scamicide.com Steve Weisman said it’s ...

An example of an email scam targetting a company employer. Email scams target both businesses and individuals engaged in financial transactions. These scams often compromise legitimate business email ...

NAPERVILLE, Ill. (WLS) -- Spoof phone calls where the caller ID has the name of a company, but is associated with a fake number, is a common scam. People now need to be on the lookout for spoof calls ...

PhonePe has rolled out PhonePe Protect, a new security tool that blocks payments to government-flagged fraud numbers using ...

It can be difficult to ignore the infamous ‘ding' from your phone when getting a new text, but sometimes those messages have a phony background, asking you to click a link or respond with sensitive ...