Residents in St. Louis County and the surrounding areas need to be aware of a phone scam. The St. Louis County Sheriff’s Office has received numerous calls this past week about a scam involving ...

If you’re reading this, there’s a good chance you’re one of the over 310 million people in the world who use Amazon — after all, who doesn’t love getting exactly what they need delivered to their ...

One of the scariest parts about owning a smartphone is the notion that you could potentially be hacked or scammed by something as simple as a phone call. There are all sorts of different methods of ...

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 ...

As the rise of artificial intelligence continues to confuse even the most chronically online with what’s real and what’s not, law enforcement agencies are warning it’s more important than ever to be ...

A Murrayville resident avoided a scam call posing as Walmart and the FTC, as Illinois officials warn of toll and text fraud.

A phone call telling you to return a new phone may be a scam. The scammer simply keeps your phone instead of replacing it. Hang up on such calls and contact the carrier directly. The next time you ...

Spam and scam calls have turned the simple act of answering your phone into a risk calculation, but on the iPhone a surprising amount of protection is already built in. With a few quiet tweaks, you ...

Are you suddenly being inundated with calls about a loan you never applied for? You’re not alone. Annoying fraud calls from personal info-seeking scammers posing as processing reps, usually promising ...

Google is rolling out a comprehensive security update for Android this month that’s designed to actively protect users from phone scams, phishing attacks, and other fraud attempts. The first security ...

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