The holiday season, with all of its shopping specials, is often seen as a time when scams run rampant. Fraudsters like to take advantage of consumers' willingness to spend money, and this year they ...

CHICAGO -- The text message is clear: Scammers want to steal from you in a new way. For the second year in a row, spam texts have outnumbered spam calls. According to the annual RoboKiller Phone Spam ...

The RMV said customers should also be aware of texts or emails claiming to be from MassDOT that say the driver owes money for ...

If you've gotten a mysterious message on your cellphone that looks like it came from your own phone number, do not click on the link. Verizon customers have reported receiving these messages over the ...

A new Consumer Reports survey finds texting and messaging scams have jumped 50% in the past year, and it might surprise you ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — If it seems like you’re being inundated with spam calls and texts these days, you’re not alone. There are the text messages about supposed unpaid traffic tickets, those encouraging us ...

Nowadays, it’s hard to know whether a text message or an email is real or fake. With scammers getting creative by copying official texts and emails word for word, the false messages can sometimes ...

Scam texts are on the rise and scammers are coming up with new ways to steal your money. This week, hundreds of thousands of ...

Scammers love pretending to be Amazon, and now they're doing it again. *** new scam has prompted *** warning from the Federal Trade Commission. Here's how it works. You get *** text that looks like it ...

DHS warns SNAP users of a text message scam and advises reporting suspicious activity to their hotline or email.