FBI reports over $20 billion in internet crime losses. Learn how scammers coach victims before bank visits and what families ...

Learn how the "crying child" scam and AI voice cloning scams work, and how to protect your family from fake emergency calls ...

The FCC is considering new know your customer rules that would require phone companies to collect government IDs and ...

We have all experienced it: your phone rings, you interrupt your day to answer, and you are met with absolute silence. After a few seconds of "dead air," the line clicks shut. In 2026, these silent ...

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 ...

A suspicious username, often similar to a real username (like “contact12” for a scammer impersonating a company’s customer ...

AI tools are making it easier than ever for scammers to defraud consumers. The FBI reports that cybercrime is on the rise, reaching over 1 million complaints last year for a total of $20.877 billion ...

A few weeks ago, I stepped off the elevator with a salad in one hand, my laptop in the other, and my shoulder scrunched up to my ear so my phone wouldn’t fall. “Geez, again?” I said as I maneuvered my ...

I hesitate to tell Dallas' Bob Barrese what I learned about the scourge of scam telephone callers. He's already on edge. According to Barrese, some days he gets up to 15 calls. He's done all the right ...

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 ...