A new phone number text messaging scam has been making the rounds on smartphones. This sneaky scam is pretty clever. Scammers are getting better by the day at fooling people into thinking they're ...

To join the CNBC Technology Executive Council, go to cnbccouncils.com/tec An increasing number of seemingly random and innocuous texts are hitting Apple and Android ...

The Federal Trade Commission says the percentage of people who will open a text message when they receive it is as high as 98%. Those are good odds for a scammer. Sign up for our Newsletters Crooks ...

DISGUISE. HERE’S CONSUMER INVESTIGATOR. BRIAN ROCHE. SO YOU GET A TEXT MESSAGE FROM SOMEONE THAT YOU DON’T KNOW THAT READS SOMETHING LIKEHI TS. HEY, IS THIS JOHN? IT’S AMANDA. WE CHATTED ON TINDER ...

At least that's an experience several Verizon users have documented in a chat thread on the company's community forum. A Verizon user started a thread about the strange phenomenon over the past ...