Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ‘Wrong Phone Number’ Scams Are on the Rise - Kostenko Maxim / Shutterstock.com If you've received an innocent-sounding text from a ...

At least that's an experience several Verizon users have documented in a chat thread on the company's community forum. A Verizon user started a thread about the strange phenomenon over the past ...

Sagar has been writing about technology for over half a decade. An MBA grad, who worked for a top MNC in London, quit his job to pursue his passion for technology. Since then, Sagar's work has ...

Beware of text messages with promises to win or a call to action! Because it is precisely messages like these that repeatedly ...

TEMPORARY LOCATIONS. IT STARTS WITH A STRANGE TEXT MESSAGE FROM SOMEONE. YOU DO NOT KNOW. IT MAY SEEM LIKE A MISTAKE, BUT IT COULD BE A LITTLE MORE SINISTER. IT COULD BE THE START OF A SCAM. WE’VE ...

Steven Winkelman is Android Police’s Managing Editor. He works closely with editorial leadership to oversee operations, develop editorial plans, and create systems to make the newsroom more efficient ...

To join the CNBC Technology Executive Council, go to cnbccouncils.com/tec An increasing number of seemingly random and innocuous texts are hitting Apple and Android ...

Some Verizon customers are reportedly receiving an unusual flurry of spam text messages. The reason they're so unusual is that the texts appear to be coming from the recipient's own phone number.

THE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION SAYS THE PERCENTAGE OF PEOPLE WHO WILL OPEN A TEXT MESSAGE WHEN THEY RECEIVE IT IS AS HIGH AS 98%, AND THOSE ARE GOOD ODDS FOR A SCAMMER. IN FACT, I JUST GOT ONE THIS WEEK ...