Thousands of people are bilked every year by criminals who enter the lives of their victims through their telephones. AARP once found that about half of all mobile calls were fraudulent, and that the ...

Emily Long is a freelance writer based in Salt Lake City. After graduating from Duke University, she spent several years reporting on the federal workforce for Government Executive, a publication of ...

Scams are on the rise, but Alternative Number from Surfshark can help keep you safe. Here's why, when and how to use it. The Global State of Scams Report 2024 from Global Anti-Scam Alliance and ...

Tech support scammers have devised a method to inject their fake phone numbers into webpages when a target’s web browser visits official sites for Apple, PayPal, Netflix, and other companies. The ruse ...

Scammers love to seed the internet with fake customer service numbers in order to lure in unsuspecting victims who are just trying to fix something wrong in their life. Con artists have done it to ...

New attack poisons sources AI chatbots use for content. Public sites like YouTube and Yelp abused to host spam links. AI answers can surface poisoned content and put users at risk. Cybercriminals are ...

It looks like scammers are posing as T-Mobile reps, offering “free phones” to loyal customers and tricking them into placing real phone orders. Victims receive a phone, and then the scammer contacts ...

Scam callers claiming to be Scott County Sheriff’s Office (SCSO) personnel are “spoofing” the department’s phone number and ...