Text scams have grown exponentially over the past few years. Why it matters: These scams have gotten harder to identify, and more costly — last year, consumers reported losing $470 million to scams ...

EIGHT. NEWS EIGHT ON YOUR SIDE NOW. THE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION IS OUT WITH ITS FIVE MOST COMMON TEXT MESSAGE SCAMS. AND THERE ARE ONES THAT I HAVE BEEN WARNING YOU ABOUT FOR YEARS. SO LET’S RUN DOWN ...

More Americans are getting texts from scammers. The Federal Trade Commission reports that those scams took consumers for $330 million in 2022. One of the most common text message scams is when a ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Scams are not always obvious, and they are constantly changing to be more convincing. In 2022, text message scams cost consumers more than $330 million. That is why the Federal Trade ...

There has been an 86% year-over-year surge in U.S. adults targeted by phone, email and text scams, and text scams have flourished. A CNET report says 82% of Americans now get at least one scam text ...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) reports that bogus bank fraud warnings are the most common form of text message scams on its latest chart, and many of the most common scams impersonate well-known ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KAIT) - Arvest Bank is warning its customers about a common text scam. According to our content partner KATV, the texts warn Arvest Bank customers of messages that “attempt” to ...

Read full article: 550 OCPS students are homeless in Winter Garden, Ocoee, Oakland, Windermere A Volusia County Beach Safety lifeguard truck. ORLANDO, Fla. – There was clearly something fishy afoot ...