A harmless text message can quickly become expensive. Read this article to find out in which cases you should not respond.

Here is how to stay safe as criminals increasingly target smartphone owners.

Text or short message service (SMS) scams decreased significantly by 86.6% in 2025, as scammers shifted to call-based scams ...

Toll road sca m mers are at it again with fake E-ZPass, EZDriveMa and other road tol l collection services claiming you owe unpaid tolls and seeking immediate payment by asking you to "click here" – ...

If you, like practically anyone else with a cell phone in the U.S. and beyond, have received a scam text message about an unpaid toll or undelivered mail item, there’s a good chance you have been ...

SMS blasters are portable devices which impersonate a mobile phone network tower and are used by cybercriminals.

Ever wondered why your text messages sometimes fail to send, show up pixelated or don’t appear at all on the other person’s end? It might not be your phone, but your carrier’s messaging support.

This is critical because U.S. federal agencies repeatedly warn that texting without the protection of end-to-end encryption ...

It all began when Shridhar V received an SMS informing him that his vehicle had been caught speeding by a traffic camera. The ...

The first SMS was sent in 1992, when an engineer of an IT service company based in the U.K. sent it to his colleague to wish him a Merry Christmas. One year later, Finnish company Nokia released the ...