Court officials in Philadelphia are warning people about a text messaging scam that claims to be from the city's municipal court and falsely tells recipients that they owe unpaid parking citations.

SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) -- A new year brings another set of phishing text messages making the rounds from scammers falsely claiming to be from ODOT and DMV. "Don’t take the bait!" the agency warning in a ...

US A NEW TWIST ON THESE POTENTIALLY COSTLY MESSAGES. LAST YEAR, NEWS EIGHT ON YOUR SIDE REPORTED ON TURNPIKE TEXT MESSAGE SCAMS MANY TIMES, BUT IN THE LAST WEEK OR SO, WE’VE HEARD FROM A SURPRISING ...

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority has censured and fined Benjamin F. Edwards & Co. $750,000 for long-running failures to supervise, retain, and produce business-related text messages, ...

Messages that claim you're due a tax refund are scams. The scammers want your bank account or Social Security number. Don't respond to the message. Instead, report it and then delete it. Most of us ...

Spammers and malicious actors inundate us with a steady stream of text messages—often purporting to be from legitimate institutions or companies. Stanching this flow isn’t easy. Just as the unwanted ...

Did you get this text from Verizon about *** $20 credit? This one is real. Here's what's going on. So after an outage knocked out service for customers nationwide, Verizon now says it's going to give ...

PCWorld explains how to identify SMS cost traps that use urgent language and fake prizes to trick recipients into calling premium-rate numbers or replying to texts. These scams matter because ...