Text scams have grown exponentially over the past few years. Why it matters: These scams have gotten harder to identify, and more costly — last year, consumers reported losing $470 million to scams ...

More Americans are getting texts from scammers. The Federal Trade Commission reports that those scams took consumers for $330 million in 2022. One of the most common text message scams is when a ...

More Americans are falling victim to text-messaging scams, and losing thousands of dollars in the process. U.S. consumers lost $330 million to fraudulent texts last year, up from $131 million in 2021 ...