A former financial consultant and gym owner was sentenced in federal court for his role in the scheme.

“Message scam losses are on the rise,” is the headline in a recent edition of the AARP Bulletin. To be sure, in every single AARP publication as well as in Consumer Reports and other magazines, there ...

Scam Detector flags risky text messages and sends you an alert to protect you from (even accidentally) clicking links it deems as dangerous. It works with Gmail, Microsoft, and Yahoo Mail to detect ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — A Knoxville woman lost $1,000 to a scammer who took control of her computer claiming he was trying to fix it. It all started when Sharon Hart bought a secondhand laptop, took ...

Tired of spam texts that just won't stop? Your phone comes with built-in protection, but it might be turned off by default. Here's how to fix that on both iPhone and Android.