Louisiana agencies are warning residents of circulating text message scams seeking personal information or payment. One of two state agencies warning of scams this week is the Louisiana Secretary of ...

The texts and emails suggest the recipient owes unpaid or outstanding traffic tickets or has violations that remain unresolved.

Many Hoosiers have been finding unwelcome texts in their inboxes in recent days. The apparent notices of traffic and toll violations tell people to pay to opt out of a hearing. The ...

Keep messages from unknown numbers away from your inbox and out of sight. When Apple released iOS 26 in September 2025, the ...

The Federal Trade Commission released new data showing that Americans reported losing $470 million to scams that started with text messages in 2024. The agency identified five dominant categories of ...

The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, in Veronica Bramlett, on behalf of herself and all others ...

Google Messages may soon introduce a security feature designed to protect Android users from SMS Blasters. The under-development safety feature was spotted in a string-code uncovered during an APK ...

One New Zealand has announced it has added a new layer of scam prevention to its mobile network with the introduction of an SMS firewall designed to block malicious and fraudulent text messages ...

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With well over one million complaints of robocalls being submitted to the FTC per year, knowing how to block numbers on your iPhone can help keep you safe from scams.1 In that same vein, you may also ...

Texting has evolved over the years to become a better version, like almost every other piece of tech. The core idea is still the same, but now with plenty of features that give you more control over ...

Microsoft says an Exchange Online issue that mistakenly quarantined legitimate emails last week was triggered by faulty heuristic detection rules designed to block credential phishing campaigns. As ...