Feeling buried under a flood of unwanted calls and texts on your iPhone? Sadly, you aren't alone, as spam calls and texts are ...

Use your carrier's app like AT&T ActiveArmor, Verizon Smart Family, or T-Mobile. Third-party apps like Call Control can help block unwanted calls and voicemails effectively. Google Voice can send ...

Corrections & Clarifications: A previous version of this column neglected to note that calling *77 on your mobile phone may instead connect you with law enforcement. The moment you hear that ...

This morning WhitePages announced that it has acquired Mr. Number, the call blocking and phone spam identification app that is a top-20 Android app in the communications category, with over seven ...

If you own a phone, chances are you’ve been on the receiving end of a car insurance scam, an identity theft attempt or a slew of other live or prerecorded calls ranging from mildly annoying to ...

Receiving calls from an unknown number often leads to the question, “Who called me from this number?” It could be a spammer, a long-lost friend, or a misdial, but quickly identifying the caller can ...

While regulators are doing everything they can to stop robocalls in their tracks , it's an uphill battle, and some calls will inevitably slip through and make it to your phone. Fortunately, both Apple ...

Scam and spam calls are getting more common. And they’re hard not to answer because the number comes up as “unknown.” When there’s no caller ID number, you can’t be sure if it’s a spam caller or an ...

A proposal to force cellphone companies to block certain spam texts is gaining momentum. Meanwhile, there are simple things you can do right now to stop spam texts, which I’ll get to shortly.

"Bad actors" are reportedly responsible for texts to Verizon customers that come from their own number. The FTC said recently that phone fraud reports have skyrocketed. Verizon also told The Verge it ...

WASHINGTON - Those annoying "spam" e-mails for Viagra or low-rate mortgages that clog computer users' mailboxes appear to be on the decline, federal regulators said Tuesday. In a report to Congress, ...

Baffled phone users are receiving spam texts—many of which include links that redirect to Russian news websites—that appear to have been sent from their own cellphones. The messages are written as ...