Scam texts are becoming more sophisticated. Learn how to spot the warning signs, avoid common schemes, and protect yourself ...

Your phone comes with built-in spam text protection, but it might be turned off by default. I'll tell you how to change that on both iPhone and Android.

Australian telcos have been handed new powers to prevent malicious SMS messages from being sent, by automatically detecting and blocking them at a network level. The federal government has amended ...

New rules developed by the Australian Communications and Media Authority in conjunction with industry body Communications Alliance require telcos to identify, trace and block SMS scams. "SMS scams can ...

The Australian Communications and Media Authority has registered the new code which would see telcos and network operators identify, trace, and block scam text messages and the numbers behind them.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scammers tend to try to create urgency – claiming that there is a warrant for your arrest, for example. Scam calls are an epidemic ...

The bank, led by Peter King, warned it was seeing a worrying number of customers receiving calls from scammers, often masquerading as members of the bank or another financial institution. Westpac said ...

The federal government will give telcos more power to identify and block scam texts, but says unsolicited messages sent from political parties are another matter. Telecommunications companies' power ...

In late May, the FBI warned U.S. residents of a new phishing scam, Kali365 targeting Microsoft 365 users. Here's how to ID, what scammers are after.