A typical smishing attempt might say your bank account has been locked, your package delivery needs confirmation, or you've ...

It tells you to reply 'STOP' if you didn't authorise this, which will most likely lead to a scam which will try to steal your personal and payment information. You can report scam text messages by ...

Virgin Media O2 is urging parents and guardians to speak to teens about the risks of scam texts, as new research reveals a quarter (26 per cent) of 13-to-16-yea ...

PHOENIX — A local credit union reports a surge in sophisticated tech scams targeting Arizona banking ... the schemes typically begin with urgent text messages about account fraud.

Former safeguards, like caller ID, no longer offer protection. Scammers can “spoof” or imitate numbers of legitimate ...

EXCLUSIVE: Nicola's daughter fell victim to a fake social media advert that appeared "too good to be true" in hindsight.

the text message read. It’s the latest scam, which follows weeks after the Police revealed that people in the North ... informing him that he needed to send personal identification to an address, in a ...

Bogus texts that look legitimate are becoming more commonplace in the digital age of society, fraudsters tricking people into ...

Mobile operator O2 (Virgin Media) has today revealed that their UK network blocked 168 million suspected fraudulent text ...

Despite most teens believing they can identify scams, almost half were fooled by a fake offer for ... “That’s why we’re doing all we can to stop scammers in their tracks by blocking millions of ...