As this holiday season nears its end, Illinois Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias issued a warning Tuesday about text ...

A new Consumer Reports survey finds texting and messaging scams have jumped 50% in the past year, and Gen Z is getting hit ...

Love Park police are warning the public about a recent surge in scam text messages claiming recipients have unpaid traffic ...

You're not alone feeling inundated by text scams - 2 News Oklahoma's Cathy Tatom listens to why it appears there are more than ever filling up out phones in 2025.

It's the holidays, so my phone is abuzz with messages. The problem is, most of the texts I'm receiving aren't from family and friends. Instead, I'm inundated with offers for tax prep assistance, back ...

From fake car warranties to phony charity appeals, the FTC reveals the most common tactics scammers are using.

According to Robokiller, Americans received 19.2 billion spam and scam texts in April 2025 alone — that comes out to about 63 spam texts for every person. There’s only one group of people who don’t ...

Google is suing a Chinese-speaking cybercriminal group it says is responsible for a massive wave of scam text messages sent ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - In a recent three-day window, a private online security company detected a 100-fold increase in traffic ticket text scams sent to Ohio drivers. Millions of these messages went ...

Delivery scams and theft are particularly prevalent during the holidays when more packages are shipped, but they can happen ...

Job offer scams are a perennial favorite of sketchy grifters — the latest model comes in the form of a fake job text message.

The FTC’s 2024–2025 report on protecting older consumers shows total fraud losses among adults 60 and older have quadrupled ...