The speed at which people use phones to email, text, transact, surf the internet and post on social media has made them even more vulnerable as scams increase both in number and sophistication. New ...

If you’ve been getting random calls from a private or unknown number asking if you’re having problems with your internet software, visa status or tax, then you’re part of the nearly 20,000 people ...

Do you try to screen your calls for scammers? Phone scam criminals have a trick to get around that. It is called phone spoofing. Phone spoofing is when someone disguises the number they are calling or ...

In most instances crooks make ten of thousands of phone calls and leave voice messages demanding recipients call them back or they give them automated instructions to follow the prompts to speak to ...

He asked her to turn on her computer and led her through a series of steps so that he could access it remotely. When Langer asked why this was necessary, he said he needed to remove his company’s ...

We took a call from a scammer and documented all the tactics he used. Then we reviewed our notes with an anti-fraud expert. Here’s what we learned. Last Friday, I got a call from a man who told me he ...

A group of cybersecurity experts in Australia are developing a chatbot that can impersonate a human and sit on a scam phone call to waste a fraudster's time. Researchers at Macquarie University in ...

Are you fast on your phone? It’s a trap - and scammers are banking on it. Here’s how to keep safe and protect your identity. The speed at which people use phones to email, text, transact, surf the ...