In 2024, Americans reported losing $470 million to scams that started with texts, according to the Federal Trade Commission. Text scams are also becoming harder to detect with AI. Knowing what to look ...

Spammers and malicious actors inundate us with a steady stream of text messages—often purporting to be from legitimate institutions or companies. Stanching this flow isn’t easy. Just as the unwanted ...

If you got a text message asking you to pay an unpaid toll, parking ticket, or moving violation, it is almost certainly a scam. Consumer Reports asked every toll agency in the U.S. whether it sends ...

Samsung Messages goes dark for US users this July. Any text history that hasn’t been migrated beforehand won’t be coming back. July is when Samsung Messages stops working, and for anyone still using ...

Nationwide customers are being urged to check their banking app or messages. The building society, which serves more than 16 million customers, notes that people should set up one-time passcodes (OTPs ...