Americans get 2.5 million scam and robocalls a month, according to U.S. PIRG Education Fund, a consumer advocacy organization ...
Spam calls are a widespread modern nuisance affecting nearly everyone with a mobile phone. Recently, a user on X (formerly ...
An Ohio man has been sentenced to four years in federal prison and ordered to repay nearly $200,000 he stole from mostly elderly people through a telemarketing scam. Myron Plummer of Mentor, Ohio, ...
U.S. consumers received just under 4.1 billion robocalls in December 2025, bringing the yearly total to 52.5 billion, ...
CANAAN — Imagine being home bound on a fixed income. Friends have passed away; family is scattered in different parts of the country. The phone rings. A voice on the other end says that you have been ...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Illinois Attorney General Jim Ryan says he is suing three out-of-state companies that allegedly used a telemarketing scam to bill thousands of people for unwanted services. Each ...
These simple rules help you decide when to answer the phone—and when to let it ring. I review privacy tools like hardware security keys, password managers, private messaging apps, and ad-blocking ...