Florida is ripe for online, text and phone scams and Sheriff Richard Del Toro knows St. Lucie County is no exception as he highlights cyber scams.

Your phone comes with built-in spam text protection, but it might be turned off by default. I'll tell you how to change that on both iPhone and Android.

Whether it’s the supposed bank employee, the fake police officer or the notorious ‘grandparent’ scam, telephone fraud has ...

Bettendorf police warn of scammers posing as officers to demand bond money over the phone from inmate families after viewing ...

FBI reports over $20 billion in internet crime losses. Learn how scammers coach victims before bank visits and what families ...

According to the FTC, fraud losses hit $15.9 billion in 2025. Imposter scams led in sheer number of reports, but investment scams caused the steepest financial damage. This voice experience is ...

American-made AI models—chiefly ChatGPT and Gemini—have been used to build specialized software that allows scammers to ...

Thousands of people are bilked every year by criminals who enter the lives of their victims through their telephones. AARP once found that about half of all mobile calls were fraudulent, and that the ...

Most scam texts are easy to spot, but this one feels different. At first glance, the message looks polished and uses official branding that signals credibility. It also includes technical details that ...

The Travis County District Attorney’s Office has received four reports from residents who said they were contacted by someone ...

The man on the phone said he was Captain Milder from Dauphin County, and he said I had to pay some fines immediately or risk being arrested. No, he said, an official notification had not been sent.

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