We don’t identify all the numbers we receive a call from. Imagine the scenario where you get a call from a person from the IRS, they claim your taxes were not paid. Further, they claim if you don’t ...

If you've received an innocent-sounding text from a number you don't recognize, it's not actually innocent. It's likely the start of a "wrong phone number" scam, which is increasingly being used to ...

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 ...

Phone scams have been a concerning problem. As technology moves forward, it opens new ways for scams, becoming more sophisticated to catch the scammer. However, there are platforms available that can ...

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 ...

MAKE SURE YOU DON’T FALL VICTIM. A WARNING FROM THE FBI ABOUT SCAM CALLS. NOT ONLY ARE THEY USING LOCAL NUMBERS, BUT THEY’RE ALSO STARTING TO USE REAL CALLER IDS. THAT INCLUDES A CALLER ID FROM THE ...

MIAMI (CBSMiami) – A scam is circulating the nation and it's coming from an unlikely source: your own cellphone number. Chris Welch, an editor and reviewer at "The Verge," normally writes about how ...

From romantic-partners begging for money online to unnamed-telephone-villains holding “relatives” for ransom — scammers spend their days pretending to be someone they aren’t. The scams come in many ...

PayPal users are being targeted by a sophisticated new email scam that is proving to be incredibly difficult to spot. This ...

A scammer is falsely identifying himself as an officer from the Nether Providence Police Department in phone calls, Chief David Splain is warning residents. The scam is even using a legitimate police ...