Verizon’s $20 credit is claimed in the myVerizon app. Scam texts push links and verification traps to steal logins. Pause.

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The Division of Motor Vehicles and state Attorney General's Office say a new round of scam text messages have popped up in North Carolina.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. That Coinbase Text Is a Scam - miss.cabul/Shutterstock As a rule of thumb, if you receive an unsolicited text, especially one ...

Beware of a text scam in New Jersey that pretends to be from the DMV, threatening legal action over unpaid tickets. Check ...

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 very convincing, but ...

The Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles, or BMV, is warning its customers about new text message scams that are now strongly mimicking the BMV’s mobile website and improperly citing Indiana Code. Our ...

Texting scams are exploding. In 2024 alone, U.S. consumers lost $470 million to them, according to the Federal Trade Commission, a number more than five times what it was just four years earlier. To ...

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 ...

Three is urging its mobile customers to dial a four-digit code if they receive a suspicious text offering them a 'large ...

As a rule of thumb, if you receive an unsolicited text, especially one claiming to include a security code, it's likely part of a phishing scheme. Such is the case with a recent spate of unprompted ...

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