Another step you can take is to block numbers once you know they’re spam. Scammers will often change up their numbers, but ...

Cold calls are often a waste of your time and an unwanted interruption to your day. You might think that, at worst, you end up buying or signing up for something that you don't really need or at an ...

You probably know by now not to pick up or respond to the barrage of communication from numbers you don't recognize—this gets easier as smartphones roll out more robust scam detection and spam ...

WXIN/WTTV — The Federal Trade Commission reports a spike in phone calls from scammers claiming to be from the IRS and telling ...

As a journalist, cold calling people is part of the job, as well as answering calls from unknown numbers. So, as a veteran of the cold-call art, let me give you my simple, polite tip: Just say, "Is ...

Dear Eric: “ High Call Volume ” wrote to you concerning the friend with whom he reconnected, only to receive multiple calls a day. The letter writer wrote, “It drives me nuts for him to call so much.

Caller ID used to be a very simple thing in the "landline phones and copper wires" days. If somebody called you, their number showed up on the display, and if it didn't, then the caller had ...

They vanished for a while, but “No Caller ID” calls are back, and not always for the better. These days, lots of people across the US are seeing more anonymous calls. Some are harmless, like delivery ...

Robocalls offering fake car warranties were once among the most common phone scams in the U.S., with nearly a billion scams logged in a single month in 2022, according to the Federal Communications ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Zak Doffman writes about security, surveillance and privacy. Yes, Liquid Glass is cool. But while the iPhone ecosystem focused on ...