Provincial police are warning of a ramped up text-based smartphone scam called “smishing” by criminals intent on stealing ...

You’ve just become the recipient of a smishing text. So, what is a smishing text? It’s a scam designed to make you panic, act fast, and give away personal information before you have time to ...

Earlier this year, the FBI put out a consumer alert warning of smishing scams. Smishing is short for SMS phishing, which is a ...

The random text message you may have recently gotten telling you to pay a suspicious fee is called a smishing scam. Scammers are phishing for personal information through the form of SMS, or text ...

Reporter Recently, several state and federal agencies, including the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Internal Revenue Service, have warned against the rise of smishing, the SMS version of ...

Don't click on anything. Don't think you're in trouble. And certainly do not send money. Smishing scams have popped up all over the country, where people get text messages telling them they need ...

The latest so-called smishing scams—phishing attacks via SMS—have exploited more than 10,000 newly registered domains, using fake payment demands to steal personal and financial information.

They're so-called smishing scams — a form of phishing that relies on SMS texts to trick people into sending money or share sensitive information. Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill said she ...

In a new warning, the FBI says scammers are moving state to state with new "smishing" or "spoofing" text messages that claim the recipient owes money for unpaid tolls with common phrases noted ...

Last April, the FBI reported receiving more than 2,000 complaints reporting smishing scams representing toll road collection services in three states. The Federal Trade Commission put out a fresh ...