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 ...
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 ...
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 ...