You probably know by now not to pick up or respond to the barrage of communication from numbers you don't recognize—this gets easier as smartphones roll out more robust scam detection and spam ...

PUEBLO — One man in Pueblo said he has received more than 100 fake calls so far this year. His story serves as a warning to other people. If you're shopping online for the holidays, you want to be ...

BOISE, Idaho — Idaho State Police (ISP) is warning the public of a phone scam hitting the Gem State. The spoofing scam involves using a fake caller ID to impersonate ISP Captains or other personnel.

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - The Honolulu Police Department is warning the public about a recent rise in reports of a sneaky phone scam tactic. Caller ID spoofing is a type of scam where fraudsters mask ...

The FCC on Tuesday gave wireless carriers until next summer to implement a system designed to prevent caller ID spoofing. The goal is blocking phone scammers from using fake caller ID information to ...

This year, we will see 40 billion robo calls made in the United States and many are spoofing calls that cost people money. criminals thru caller ID block out the location of where they're calling from ...

DENVER (KDVR) — The Colorado State University Police Department is warning community members of calls spoofing the CSU 491 prefix and pretending to be immigration authorities. Spoofing refers to ...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently issued its "Top Scams of 2024" update, and the results aren't promising. Consumers lost about $1.9 billion to fraud through phone calls, texts or emails ...

The threat is simple: with vendors offering web services to "spoof Caller-ID," the legitimacy of Caller-ID is destroyed. The Caller-ID topic has the lamp burning in our offices. During the next couple ...