How to block spam texts on your iPhone
With spam texts on the rise, especially on iPhones and iMessage, we thought it would be helpful to put together a guide on how to …
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This is the reason I rarely open Apple’s Messages app anymore
The SMS messages come with increasing regularity, almost daily now. The Apple Messages app on my iPhone stays loaded up with text messages from Amazon, …
Robocalls are the worst they’ve been since the pandemic started
If you feel like robocalls have picked up significantly in recent weeks, you are not imagining it. Citing data collected by YouMail over the last …
T-Mobile and AT&T are actually working together to stop robocalls
The scourge of robocalls and spoofed numbers is bad as now as it’s ever been, but in recent weeks, the government and the private sector …
Verizon is giving subscribers free robocall and spam protection tools
In an effort to curb the recent epidemic of spam and robocalls, Verizon announced this week that it will be giving all of its customers …
Report: Your cellphone is going to get tons more spam calls next year
If you’ve ever answered a call to your cellphone that had an unfamiliar number but a local area code, making you wonder well maybe I …
T-Mobile introduces new features to combat phone scammers
Every year, phone scammers come up with new and creative ways to bilk individuals out of their hard-earned money. From calling up folks and pretending …
AT&T introduces new free service to stop spam callers in their tracks
It’s always frustrating when you receive a phone call from a strange number only to find out that it’s a robocall trying to sell you …
This simple trick tells you what websites are selling your data
One of the harsh realities of the web is that many sites profile their customers, and then sell that data to third parties. It’s not …
How to stop receiving iCloud calendar invite spam on your iPhone and Mac
An incredibly sinister new form of spam has infiltrated countless iPhones and iPads in recent weeks: fake iCloud calendar invites. Personally, I’ve been bombarded with …
The hilarious things that happen when you actually reply to spam
Have you ever gotten a piece of spam that made it past your filter and thought to yourself, “I wonder what would happen if I …
Spammers make a combined $200 million a year while costing society $20 billion
Spam emails are something Internet users just have to deal with. No matter how much companies spend to prevent spam, it doesn’t seem to make …
40% of accounts on Facebook, Twitter and other social networks are spam
Social networks like Facebook and Twitter are become focal points of our digital lives, and just as they did with email and other popular digital …
More than half of Internet traffic is ‘non-human’
A new study suggests that more than half of all Internet traffic is generated by non-human sources such as hacking software, scrapers and automated spam …
Gmail users claim Google is sending unauthorized spam emails from their accounts [updated]
In what can only be described as yet another set back for Google’s privacy battle, Gmail users are accusing the search giant of accessing their …
Nokia fined in Australia for spamming customers with text messages
The Australian Communications and Media Authority has fined Nokia for sending spam-filled text messages to its customers. Nokia had been sending messages with tips on how …
Twitter looks to squash spam and malicious links with new acquisition
Twitter finally appears to be preparing a new wave of attacks on the malicious spammers that have overrun the popular social network during the past year. Web …
NumberGuru for iPhone, Android provides free unlimited reverse phone number look-ups
BeenVerified, the company behind the Antoine Dodson-endorsed Sex Offender Tracker app, is back with another offering that looks to disrupt the reverse directory space. The …
Google rolls out domain blocking in search results
Google on Thursday announced the availability of a new feature that allows users to block specific domains from appearing in their search results. Google has …
InNova Patent Licensing LLC files infringement lawsuit against thirty-six companies over email spam patent
Texas-based InNova Patent Licensing LLC has filed a broad lawsuit against thirty-six defendants accusing them of infringement upon an email spam patent that was granted to InNova …
