This particular phishing scam dangles a free gift in front of anyone who clicks the link in the spam text message. Don't fall ...

There has been an 86% year-over-year surge in U.S. adults targeted by phone, email and text scams, and text scams have flourished. A CNET report says 82% of Americans now get at least one scam text ...

No, that text you just received from yourself is not the future you letting you know what stocks to invest in to become a millionaire. It’s spam and it appears to be impacting Verizon customers. Many ...

Spam messages can be annoying, but there is a way to fight back. Here are 5 ways to block spam texts.

After a $1B text scam wave, Google’s new AI spam-blocking tools for Android take aim at phishing, just as Apple strengthens ...

"Hi, we chose you for our Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Candidate Assessment but you didn't respond. It's only 11 questions," the text message said, followed by a link. The scolding came out of the blue, ...

It’s less than two weeks to Election Day, and the messages just. Won’t. Stop. No matter your political slant, there’s a good chance your phone is full of unwanted texts from campaigns and interest ...

Text messages that are not requested. Also called "junk text," spam text followed spam email as yet another annoyance for people. Spam text typically contains a link to a website for some product or ...

A woman checking her phone while a little girl does crafts next to her. Last holiday season, phones were vibrating off the table with incoming text messages from brands and often scammers too.

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has asked a judge to shut down an alleged text-messaging spam operation that sent out 85 text messages per minute at its peak, the agency said Wednesday. The alleged ...

Spam texts are on the rise, and they come in many forms: donation requests, sales notifications, marketing notices, and scams, to name a few. According to a report by spam call and text app RoboKiller ...

“Hi, we chose you for our Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Candidate Assessment but you didn’t respond. It’s only 11 questions,” the text message said, followed by a link. The scolding came out of the blue, ...