Scammers know this, and they're capitalizing on your trust with a trick known as caller ID or phone number spoofing, an attempt to convince you to hand over personal information—like bank account ...

Phone number spoofing is a tactic commonly used by scammers nationwide to make it appear as if calls are coming from trusted agencies.

The Telephone Consumer Protection Act was also passed, in part, to stop the robo calls from reaching a patient’s room, but ...

Idaho State Police is warning the public of a new phone scam after receiving multiple reports of suspicious calls from numbers that appear to be from ISP dispatch centers.

The Greene County Sheriff's Office has warned of a phone scam targeting families and friends of inmates at the Greene County Jail, in which scammers pretend to be officials demanding bond or GPS ...

In recent days, ISP received multiple reports of individuals receiving suspicious calls from numbers that appeared to be from ISP. In one disturbing incident, a parent answered back-to-back calls from ...

How to avoid it: Hang up and call a phone number you can verify online, says Sileo. Never give your Social Security number out over the phone, and remember that the real IRS will never ask for ...

The NYPD has a scam alert hotline to prevent victims from falling for similar scams and cyber-assisted crimes. Those who ...

Scammers use fake DocuSign emails claiming Apple Pay charges to steal personal information using fraudulent phone numbers and ...

Officials with the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office are warning the public of a current telephone scam in which suspects are ...

Phone number spoofing is a tactic commonly used by scammers nationwide to make it appear as if calls are coming from trusted agencies.