CONSUMER INVESTIGATOR BRIAN ROCHE HAS THE ANSWER. A VIEWER NAMED CHARLES JUST SENT ME THIS TEXT MESSAGE THROUGH EMAIL. HE POINTED OUT THERE WERE NO MISSPELLINGS, AND SOME OF THE OTHER TELLTALE SIGNS ...

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LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — The Henderson Police Department is warning residents of a text message scam going around mimicking court documents. According to HPD, the text messages look like official court ...

Fraudulent texts claiming to be from the Department of Motor Vehicles have been circulating in Manatee County, and officials urge residents to delete these messages. Provided photo Courtesy of Manatee ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A new area code will soon be implemented for the Northern and Central Mississippi counties. The Mississippi Public Service Commission approved on June 13 of 2024, the new area code to ...

First, it was phony parking tickets, then toll road scams, now scammers are at it again with an all-new, all-bad DMV text scam. The unfortunate popularity of this latest grift has caused states from ...

The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office is alerting residents of a sophisticated phone scam that is once again circulating, with a dangerous new variation that directly targets victims' bank accounts.

Google has filed a federal lawsuit over a text-message scam but doesn’t know yet whom it is suing. The company sued John Does in New York federal court on Nov. 12, seeking an injunction to stop a scam ...

This week, hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers received scam texts after their state's official text messaging system was breached by hackers, according to a report from NBC News. New York’s Office ...

Hackers on Monday hijacked a mass text messaging service, pushing hundreds of thousands of scam texts to people who subscribe to alerts from New York state, a Catholic charity and a political ...

Google is going to court to help put an end to, or at least limit, the prevalence of phishing scams over text message. Scam texts have been a nuisance for a long time, but they've become increasingly ...