We’ve all been there — your phone buzzes, and it’s yet another scam call or an unknown number you’d rather not deal with. Or ...

It's almost remarkable that, no matter how fancy our phones get, telemarketers, phone bots, and scam calls are still an enduring grievance of modern life. Just having an active phone number invites ...

There were 178,040 fraud reports in the forest quarter of the year, according to the Federal Trade Commission, with the top contact method for fraudsters being phone calls; here’s how iPhone users can ...

Feeling buried under a flood of unwanted calls and texts on your iPhone? Sadly, you aren't alone, as spam calls and texts are on the rise from anyone from eager local businesses to politicians asking ...

If you own an iPhone, you should know how to block numbers. The feature can help you reduce all of the spam calls you receive and improve your overall smartphone experience. But it will also help you ...

It's something that's happened to us all: we reach for our phone to answer a call only to see the words "scam likely" on the screen. As more people move to messaging as their primary means of keeping ...

If you receive unwanted calls to your phone number on an iPhone, texts or iMessages in the Messages app, or unwanted incoming calls in FaceTime, you can block them by phone number or email address.

Cell phone spam is a real problem. In fact, one tech analyst writing for Forbes recently opined that the “Do Not Call List” doesn’t work and estimated as many as 100 billion robocalls—calls lacking a ...

Leo is a How-To Writer with Android Police. He is a lifelong Android user and tech hobbyist with an educational background rooted in Public Health. His writing experience ranges from app guides to ...

Let’s face it. We all get a ton of calls from unknown or private numbers that are usually spam calls. They waste our time, and in some cases can cost us a lot of money. While carriers and tech ...

Haroun joined Android Police in 2021, reporting on the latest stories in the tech world. Since then, he’s gleefully covered everything from the most mundane Google Docs features to more mainstream ...