If it seems like you’re being inundated with spam calls and texts these days, you’re not alone. There are the text messages ...

In the past week, for the first time in the four years I’ve used a smartphone, I’ve received several spam text messages from “Blocked” and “9999999”. I was annoyed, and puzzled about how to get this ...

Spam texts can be more than annoying, as increasingly tech-forward approaches can contain malware or phish for personal information. The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced a focus ...

The rise of technology and the frequent use of personal devices has resulted in the rise of one major annoyance: spam. It comes through as phone calls, emails, and, more recently, text messages. It is ...

When Apple released iOS 26 on Sept. 15, the update included a call screening feature to help block spam calls, and it can also screen text messages on your iPhone. With iOS 26, Messages can hide ...

Our guide to identifying and blocking nuisance calls and texts on your iPhone or Android mobile shows you how to squash the spam for good. Here’s our tips and tricks for getting some peace from ...

Your phone rings, the number is unknown but you pick up in case it’s a doctor’s office or your child’s school – only to find it’s a debt-reduction offer or bogus info about how you won a free cruise.

CHICAGO -- The text message is clear: Scammers want to steal from you in a new way. For the second year in a row, spam texts have outnumbered spam calls. According to the annual RoboKiller Phone Spam ...

Flooded mailboxes, cluttered inboxes and constant phone buzzing plague millions of people daily. If you want to stop spam mail, political texts and unwanted emails from taking over your life, you're ...