"It was a text that came in first, then the call immediately afterward. So it kind of gave you like an urgency, like what is ...

In December, the IRS announced it was sending payments to more than one million people. Scammers posing as the IRS send text ...

Cybercriminals have now adopted new tricks to steal money. They do not need OTP or ATM PIN. They simply send messages with links that appear to come from banks. As soon as the receiver clicks on the ...

"Smishing" is a scam method that uses text messages to trick people into giving away sensitive information that could lead to ...

According to cybersecurity company Guardio, Americans experienced a 77 percent increase in IRS-related scam messages in ...

Countless Americans have been receiving faulty text messages claiming to be road toll notifications. Find out how to spot the ...

Here's what to look out for, and some tips on what you should do if you're one of the many who've said they've received this ...

The real goal of the scam is to give the criminals access to your bank account information, police say. The text messages are the latest phishing scam targeting victims across the country ...

Of course, if you receive a text message that appears to come from a bank at which you do not have an account, you can be confident it is a scam. If the text message provides for you to respond to ...

But he questioned how he could identify if those messages were from the bank or also a scam — revealing the impossible situation victims find themselves in. Mr Cropp said he received an offer ...

"Text message scams are undermining the SMS communications ... 115 million per annum is attributed to scam texts," it added. Bank of Ireland has welcomed the ComReg announcement.