ST. ROBERT, Mo. – City officials in St. Robert say a fake phone number called the local Walmart threatening violence. This prompted the store’s evacuation on Saturday evening. According to a post on ...
Bank caller ID spoofing scams are still happening frequently. But your bank will most likely never call you; if you get a call of any kind, hang up and call the number on your card directly or go into ...
The automated calls, explains a press release (1) from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), claim that a Walmart ...
On Sunday’s episode of The Excerpt podcast: Swatting is when someone makes a false report to emergency services to trigger an armed police response to an unsuspecting victim. It is a hoax that is ...
Many of us know about the scam where fraudsters call you and threaten to shut off your electricity — and your air conditioning — unless you pay up right now during a brutal heat wave. Ditto for ...
New iPhone replacement scam uses pressure tactics and fake carrier calls to steal devices from buyers. Criminals claim ...
Tech support scams have risen significantly in recent years. According to the Internet Crime Complaint Center, consumers and businesses lost almost a billion dollars ($924,512,658) to tech support ...
Have you heard about people receiving an unexpected phone call from Bank of America recently? It's become quite a problem as countless Americans are finding themselves targeted by fraudsters posing as ...
A widespread online scam is targeting Indian vehicle owners using fake RTO e-Challan websites and local phone numbers to ...
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — A Bloomington woman is behind bars after she allegedly called in a fake bomb threat to the Bloomington Police Department Wednesday afternoon. According to a release from the ...
MARIETTA, Ga. — The Marietta Police Department said a man was arrested after calling in a fake bomb threat at an Irish pub. Police said it was one of two recent bomb threats the department had dealt ...
Those over 30 remember the pain: that jump scare of dialing a phone number only to be met with the piercing sounds of a fax machine answer tone — the uninvited cousin of the dial-up modem. Savage ...