To protect yourself from scams, it’s crucial to take a few proactive steps. First, always verify before you trust — ...

SMS (and MMS) fraud and scams abound as well. In 2022, the Federal Trade Commission reported that over 321,000 Americans had become drawn in to mobile-phone based scams, or so-called "smishing" scams.

Setting up fraud alerts on your credit reports only takes a few minutes. They can protect your identity and your money.

Vishing scams, otherwise known as phone scams, involve fraudsters calling you and attempting to get your personal details ...

An arrest has been made, and others are pending, in a fraud case involving nearly $110,000 swindled from a Michigan woman.

Reporting a phone scam is a little more difficult. Most of the time phone scams are reported to the Federal Trade Commission at FTC.gov , especially if it's a telemarketing scam.

A n ew study by BeenVerified found that 71.10% of Americans reported an increase in scam phone calls and texts this past year, with nearly half of those consumers getting scam messages every ...

Phone scams are common, ... Nearly 1 in 6 Americans have lost money to a phone scam in the last 12 months, according to the 2019 U.S. Spam and Scam Report from the phone app Truecaller.

The Hiya report identified the following top phone scams of 2023. Amazon Impersonators: This was one of the most popular type of scam calls identified in the report.

Criminals may be opening cell phone accounts in your name and causing all kinds of havoc. What you need to know and how you can protect yourself from cell phone-account fraud.