OAKLAND — California Attorney General Rob Bonta recently issued a consumer alert warning Californians of three popular text-based scams.

When Davenport police corporal Dave Morse took a report of a woman being scammed out of thousands of dollars for a custom ...

These scam texts claim consumers owe past-due charges and provide fraudulent links for consumers to “resolve” the charge.

OAKLAND — California Attorney General Rob Bonta today issued a consumer alert warning Californians of three popular text-based scams. These scam ...

A common recent scam is a text message claiming you have unpaid tolls and that if you don’t pay up, you’ll be fined or face ...

Consumers are now being scammed by text messages claiming that a USPS package is undeliverable due to an invalid ZIP code. The fraudulent links in smishing texts may install malware or redirect users ...

or other details we deem appropriate to assess whether your payment has elevated fraud or scam risk, or is an illegal, ineligible or improper payment.” Chase won’t always be able to identify ...

Have you ever received a text indicating that a package sent via the U.S. Postal Service or other mail carrier was unable to be delivered or is sitting in a warehouse waiting to be claimed? It’s a ...

President Donald Trump has made a dramatic U-turn over a 'critical industry' he once described as 'a scam'. On social media on Sunday he announced the names of five cryptocurrencies he expects to ...

NAB has described the pop-up SMS scam as a new trend that has "hijacked ... Hartley said the fake pop-ups can be reported to NAB, or your telco provider. You can also make a report to the ...

Phishing (email-based scams) and smishing, also known as mishing (SMS or mobile scams) are two of the most widespread and dangerous online fraud techniques today.

Social media giant Meta has been profiting from hundreds of Facebook scam advertisements preying on Australians experiencing financial hardship, leaving taxpayers and charities to foot the bill.