If you've received an innocent-sounding text from a number you don't recognize, it's not actually innocent. It's likely the start of a "wrong phone number" scam, which is increasingly being used to ...

Betesh’s story highlights a troubling trend. Cryptocurrency kiosks, a favorite tool for scammers, were used in scams that led ...

The Department of Homeland Security recently said that Chinese criminal gangs have made more than $1 billion from scams directed at US phone numbers. While phone-based scams once relied on random ...

Before answering unknown calls, learn the most common phone scams and warning signs so you can protect your money and keep fraudsters out of your wallet.

Read on to find out how this Amazon scam works and how you can spot, avoid and report it. The caller will most likely know ...

Vietnam saw a decline in online scam victims for the first time in years in 2025, yet experts warn users not to let their ...

Have you received a text saying you owe money for driving through a toll booth and not paying? Or maybe you've received a message from what seems to be the Internal Revenue Service telling you that ...

The number of job scams coming through text messages has increased in recent years, as has the amount of money Americans have lost to those scams. In a recent survey, Resume.org found that younger ...

Android phones, and especially Pixel phones, are better at protecting consumers against scams than iPhone users, Google's Android team said in a report released on Thursday to mark the end of ...

A recent PayPal email scam used real PayPal messages to show fake purchase details and a callback number. See how it worked.

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