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Spam and scam calls have turned the simple act of answering your phone into a risk calculation, but on the iPhone a ...

Calls and messages from scammers are universally annoying. You know the feeling. You pick up the phone, expecting it's something or someone important, only to be met with a recorded message about ...

Unwanted calls and texts are the number one complaint to the Federal Communications Commission, and North Carolina receives an estimated 200 million per month, according to the Department of Justice.

Robocalls, those annoying unknown numbers that can pop up several times a day on a person’s cell phone, are being targeted again by the office of Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond. Oklahoma ...

Those robo-dialed phone calls keep coming. The ones that start with a tell-tale buzz that means the call is transferring to some call center and a person, or a recording, pitching something: cutting ...

Holiday scam robocalls and robotexts are surging nationwide, with scammers posing as charities, delivery services, and trusted organizations to take advantage of peak shopping stress. Fraudsters are ...

Residents at the Edison apartment complex in East Nashville have been without power for eight days, with one unit now flooded after a burst pipe caused additional damage. Tracy and Hunter talk about ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- Attorney General Jeff Jackson is escalating the fight against illegal robocalls with the launch of the second phase of "Operation Robocall Roundup." This bipartisan, multistate ...

CALLS COMING THROUGH. SOME MORE OF US DON’T BECOME TARGETS. THE NEXT TIME YOU CALL SOMEONE YOUR VOICE WILL BE ON THE SAME NATIONAL SYSTEM USED TO MAKE ROBOCALLS. I HAVE A BUSINESS AND I HAVE A GOOGLE ...

The Federal Communications Commission is cracking down on a company it said was behind millions of scam robocalls impersonating Walmart employees. FCC’s Enforcement Bureau has demanded SK Teleco, a ...

New Hampshire prosecutors ratcheted up the state’s crackdown on illegal robocalls, investigating four of the nation’s largest voice service providers with allegations they permitted more than four ...