Apple users across the United States have been receiving a new wave of scam text messages that falsely claim their Apple ID was used to approve a transaction. The phishing attempt urges recipients to ...

You might've heard of those toll scam texts. Heck, at this point, you've likely gotten a text pretending to be from E-ZPass or some such entity. We covered these scams at Mashable back in January, and ...

A popular text message scam continues to rear its ugly head on phones across the U.S., demanding money from consumers for fake unpaid tolls. These texts generally try to impersonate the toll service ...

If you're a smartphone user, chances are you've received a text message claiming you need to pay for unpaid tolls and E-ZPass charges. The Federal Trade Commission issued a warning earlier this year ...

Just yesterday, and last week, and the week before that, I got text messages from USPS informing me I had a package that couldn’t be delivered due to an incomplete address. To fix it, all I needed to ...

“Hi, we chose you for our Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Candidate Assessment but you didn’t respond. It’s only 11 questions,” the text message said, followed by a link. The scolding came out of the blue, ...

Whether it’s a holiday or any given Tuesday, finding packages at our front door isn’t so much a surprise as an expectation for some people. Unfortunately, scammers are using our consumer habits ...

Republished on August 12 with new text message attack warnings. American smartphones are under attack from malicious text messages. This industrial scale campaign is driven by organized criminal gangs ...