Get out your phone. If you’ve ever wanted to see scammers twist in the wind, this may be the best shot you’ve had in a while. Information has been shared with ConsumerAffairs by BeenVerified, ...

DTE Energy is warning people about scammers who are impersonating workers in a variety of ways. According to DTE, the scammers are now using lookalike phone numbers, emails and automated messages to ...

"Your package delivery is delayed." "Your bank account has been frozen." "Congrats! You won the Publisher's Clearing House Sweepstakes!" These three scenarios are all among the top scam or spam ...

Scammers have various methods when it comes to getting their hands on your phone number. You might think, "Well, what's the big deal? Isn't it easy to find someone's number these days, no matter what?

Scammers are more likely to call with certain phone numbers and area codes. Phone numbers and area codes from more densely-populated areas are common among scammers who aim to build a sense of ...

There's no way around it, Americans are inundated every day with nuisance and scam calls: about 50 billion of them per year, according to call-blocking app YouMail (the Federal Communications ...

What is phone number spoofing? Phone spoofing is when scammers get control of your phone number. They can then use your phone number to steal your data or use it to target other people. Instead of a ...

Personal data is more valuable than ever, often referred to as the oil of the digital age. Unsurprisingly, scammers are waiting to exploit it. This includes a seemingly innocuous piece of our identity ...

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 ...

Last month, we looked at how scammers can gain access to your phone number and how data breaches and phishing campaigns could make obtaining it easy. In this blogpost, we’ll focus more on why phone ...

Okay, this is way less bad than the headline, or even the article makes it sound. Like obviously bad and it's going to catch some people, but it's framed in the headline and all over the text as the ...