Many Hoosiers have been finding unwelcome texts in their inboxes in recent days. The apparent notices of traffic and toll violations tell people to pay to opt out of a hearing. The ...

If you feel like you're drowning in a sea of text alerts and desperate email pleas for "just $5" this election season, you are far from alone. In the final sprint to the polls ahead of the March 17 ...

SHREVEPORT, La. – I know a lot of people who report every spam text message. I also know many people who think it does no good. Here's the honest fact: it does help. But not as much as another step.

If your Messages inbox is catching a lot of stray, unwanted messages, we'll show you how to filter, report, and block spam messages on iOS 26. At WWDC 2025, Apple announced that it would be bringing ...

Emily Long is a freelance writer based in Salt Lake City. After graduating from Duke University, she spent several years reporting on the federal workforce for Government Executive, a publication of ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Consumers who have received spam text messages from Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, a U.S. health care provider, may be eligible for a settlement of up to $75 per message, ...

Spam is running rampant. Our smartphones, email inboxes, and social media message boxes are groaning under its weight, with spammers and other fraudsters developing more sophisticated techniques to ...

There are reports that a legitimate Microsoft email address—which Microsoft explicitly says customers should add to their allow list—is delivering scam spam. According to an Ars reader, the address on ...

Recent data suggests that Americans receive more than 642 million spam texts every day as of December 2025, according to the spam text and call blocking app Robokiller. That means that every second in ...

Spammers and malicious actors inundate us with a steady stream of text messages—often purporting to be from legitimate institutions or companies. Stanching this flow isn’t easy. Just as the unwanted ...

If your Gmail account didn’t seem to be working properly Saturday, you were not alone. But Google says the issue has been resolved. The official status dashboard for Google Workspace suggests that ...