Spam texts have quietly become one of the most effective tools for scammers, blurring the line between annoying marketing and ...

They tell you that replying “STOP” will get the texts to cease. But in many cases, they’re lying. And it can often make ...

Simply hitting “STOP” on spam texts isn’t always effective — and definitely not profitable. This is what you can do instead.

It's easy to let your guard down and reply to a spam text that doesn't quite seem as fishy as the usual ones. Here's what happens if you do.

There are reports that a legitimate Microsoft email address—which Microsoft explicitly says customers should add to their ...

Has your inbox recently been deluged with unwanted and even outright malicious messages? Here are 10 possible reasons – and ...

Chris has reported for various tech and consumer goods outlets over the past decade, including Android Police and MakeUseOf since early 2022. Previously, he has contributed to outlets such as ...

Anonymous text messages containing disturbing content — such as claiming Black Americans had been “selected to pick cotton” — were sent the day after Election Day, targeting recipients in more than 20 ...

Apple’s Messages app scored a bunch of new features in iOS 26, including a new ‘Screen Unknown Senders’ option meant to ...

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 ...

Users on Reddit and X are reporting email delivery delays of 10+ minutes, with some messages arriving so late that one-time passcodes and email-based two-factor authentication ...