BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - It starts with a ping. You’re in the middle of your day when a text pops up that there’s a problem with your package delivery, or a missed toll payment. These messages look ...

It starts with something small, a text that feels oddly familiar. Maybe it says, "Hey, how are you?" or "Are you coming to the BBQ?" Before you know it, you're in a friendly back-and-forth with ...

Scam texts are targeting people ages 18 to 29 at record levels, with reports of attempted scams among Gen Z tripling.

*If you’ve been a victim of a scam, report it to BBB Scam Tracker. Keep ahead of the latest scams at joeknowsbetter.com Scammers have long used social media to impersonate people you know and trust, ...

Every week, I receive a handful of text messages that are quite clearly scams. Some are about past-due toll road payments. Some mention a Coinbase withdrawal code. Others reference job offers for ...

As this holiday season nears its end, Illinois Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias issued a warning Tuesday about text scams.

THAT. ALL RIGHT? WE’VE ALL BEEN THERE. YOU’RE IN THE MIDDLE OF SOMETHING WHEN YOUR PHONE RINGS, A TEXT FROM AN UNKNOWN NUMBER. IS IT REAL OR ANOTHER SCAM TEXT? YEAH. 12 NEWS IS MALLORY ANDERSON. AND ...

First, it was phony parking tickets, then toll road scams, now scammers are at it again with an all-new, all-bad DMV text scam. The unfortunate popularity of this latest grift has caused states from ...