By plugging tens of billions of phone numbers into WhatsApp’s contact discovery tool, researchers found “the most extensive ...

Google search scam alert: fake customer service numbers can give scammers remote control of your phone. Learn how to spot ...

It's a new scam that tries to use your phone number to scam others. If you post your phone number in any public forum, you could be at risk. An ABC11 viewer discovered the scam in a quest to get rid ...

Scams are becoming more and more prevalent, and simply blocking unwanted calls doesn’t always do the trick. They’re so common that experts have coined the term “scam economy.” Unfortunately, it’s easy ...

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 ...

Over the past few months, we have come across numerous cases where sophisticated AI tools have been used to duplicate a person’s voice and trap a person in financial scams. Experts have also warned ...

Once upon a time, when the phone rang it was either someone you knew or a wrong number. Times have changed, unfortunately, and today phones seem to ring nonstop with unsolicited robocalls and, even ...

NAPERVILLE, Ill. (WLS) -- Spoof phone calls where the caller ID has the name of a company, but is associated with a fake number, is a common scam. People now need to be on the lookout for spoof calls ...

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A new phone scam in Australia involves hackers spamming numerous calls to the victim. If an unknown person calls you with a phone number that begins in "0480 036," do not answer that. The scammers ...