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The Federal Trade Commission released new data showing that Americans reported losing $470 million to scams that started with text messages in 2024. The agency identified five dominant categories of ...

Are your chats and DMs flooded with scams? If you have a Pixel or Galaxy phone, Circle to Search can come to the rescue. Here's how.

Republished on August 12 with new text message attack warnings. American smartphones are under attack from malicious text messages. This industrial scale campaign is driven by organized criminal gangs ...

A few years ago, we could only send plain text messages with 160 characters. There was no option to include any media or attachments, which kept the messages close to 140 bytes. But the Messages app ...

Officials issue statewide fraud alert about toll violations text message scam. Here's what to do if you get these messages on your iPhone or Android.