Your phone comes with strong built-in spam protection—you just need to turn it on. Here's how to do it on both iPhone and ...

Scammers are getting sneakier, so you have to be smarter to stay safe. Here are the newest scam text messages to watch out ...

Spam text messages have surged nationally over the last few years. There was one month last year in which 19 billion spam texts were received in just 30 days, according to the Federal Trade Commission ...

It's the holidays, so my phone is abuzz with messages. The problem is, most of the texts I'm receiving aren't from family and friends. Instead, I'm inundated with offers for tax prep assistance, back ...

There’s strength in numbers. That’s something to keep in mind when considering how to safeguard the messaging channels that consumers overwhelmingly prefer to interact with retailers, banks, airlines, ...

Telemarketing calls have been the bane of phone owners for decades, but an escalation led to action against “robocalls” by state and federal elected officials alike over the past couple of years. A ...

The falling cost of text messaging is making mobile-phone users a more attractive target for spammers, according to the GSM Association. To counter this, it wants its mobile-network-operator members ...

If you've gotten a mysterious message on your cellphone that looks like it came from your own phone number, do not click on the link. Verizon customers have reported receiving these messages over the ...

The table below summarises the results of our test to see how much spam brand-new SIM cards receive in a week in South Africa ...

SMS spam detection and filtering is a crucial area of research addressing both the nuisance and potential harm posed by unsolicited messages on mobile networks. As SMS remains a fundamental channel ...