The FBI warns that malicious actors are now sending fraudulent messages pretending to be from “senior U.S. officials,” but ...

Some text scams are obvious. Others are pretty clever. All of them want to fool you out of your money and personal information. Here are two making their rounds in San Diego County. First up is a text ...

During this year's holiday season, you may have received text messages regarding failed package deliveries from a number claiming to be from a shipping service. These messages are a common form of ...

TEMPORARY LOCATIONS. IT STARTS WITH A STRANGE TEXT MESSAGE FROM SOMEONE. YOU DO NOT KNOW. IT MAY SEEM LIKE A MISTAKE, BUT IT COULD BE A LITTLE MORE SINISTER. IT COULD BE THE START OF A SCAM. WE’VE ...

Scammers are getting sneakier, so you have to be smarter to stay safe. Here are the newest scam text messages to watch out for. Pop quiz: How many times has someone tried to scam you today? Beyond the ...

ATLANTA — You may have seen a post, warning people to not respond if you receive a text message like the one in the photo below. The text comes from various unknown phone numbers, with a picture of ...

Like a lot of people, I get scam texts all the time – phony Amazon fraud alerts, fake USPS delivery notices, even texts from “wrong numbers” that somehow turn flirty or businesslike. As someone who ...

ROCHE EXPLAINS HOW TO SPOT AND AVOID THE SCAM. FOLKS, IT’S OFFICIAL. ACCORDING TO THE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION, MORE PEOPLE ARE BEING CONTACTED BY SCAMMERS THROUGH TEXT MESSAGES RATHER THAN BY PHONE ...

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 ...

Federal and state authorities are working to find the origins of racist text messages sent to Black people across the country referencing slavery and telling them they were “selected to pick cotton at ...

Authorities across the United States are investigating after racist text messages – some with references to “slave catchers” and “picking cotton” reminiscent of the country’s painful and bigoted past ...

Security warnings that are circulating on social media give some good advice: don’t click on links in text messages from unknown numbers. But there’s another layer to the cautionary posts that ...