Renee Knapke of Centerville receives two or three spam text messages a week. Renee Knapke of Centerville receives two or three spam text messages a week. Mobile phone spam is rising sharply in the U.S ...

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 ...

Spam texts have quietly become one of the most effective tools for scammers, blurring the line between annoying marketing and outright fraud. The instinctive response, firing back “STOP” to make it ...

A new study shows that Ohio is the worst US state for spam calls and text messages.The study was performed by Textla, a Texas-based software company that analyzed data from the Federal Trade ...

Google Messages is gaining a new “Unsubscribe” feature to combat spam and other unwanted SMS texts or RCS chats from business senders. “Unsubscribe” is for businesses that send “unwanted messages in ...

More than 205 million spam short message service (SMS) messages were detected by Airtel Africa’s pioneering Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered spam detection service, Spam Alert in 13 of its markets ...

Sachin Bahal is a freelance tech writer. He has a bachelor's in journalism from Toronto Metropolitan University and studied journalism and photography at Durham College. A tech geek since childhood, ...

Apple is adding a new iOS 26 feature that hides texts from unknown senders on the Messages app, and this is the latest way the company is combating the rising cases of spam. Before this, all of the ...

Chandraveer, a seasoned mechanical design engineer turned tech reporter and reviewer, brings more than three years of rich experience in consumer tech journalism to the table, having contributed to ...