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.

Sometimes, you receive such a weird text from someone that you have no choice but to ignore it and go about your day. Other people, however, choose to reply, resulting in the most unhinged ...

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

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 ...

Every week, I receive a handful of text messages that are quite clearly scams. Some are about past-due toll road payments. Some mention a Coinbase withdrawal code. Others reference job offers for ...

You’re in the middle of something when your phone pings — a text from an unknown number. Is it real, or another scam? A new Consumer Reports survey finds texting and messaging scams have jumped 50% in ...

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 ...

Scam texts relating to tolls and deliveries have made Chinese scammers billions. US-based mules are paid to max out credit cards digitally cloned from stolen data. The luxury goods purchased with ...

Hackers on Monday hijacked a mass text messaging service, pushing hundreds of thousands of scam texts to people who subscribe to alerts from New York state, a Catholic charity and a political ...

In recent months, scammers have been targeting Hoosiers with a variety of text messages impersonating the BMV. Previously, fraudulent messages referred to the “DMV,” but scammers have now altered the ...

Phone scams aren’t the only threat anymore — scam text messages (also called “smishing”) are exploding in frequency and in financial damage. According to recent FTC data, Americans lost over $470 ...