Are you tired of receiving SMS scams pretending to be from Australia Post, the tax office, MyGov and banks? You’re not alone. Each year, thousands of Australians fall victim to SMS scams. And losses ...

MANILA, PHILIPPINES – The CICC warns the public that a new phishing scam is using the official Globe Telecom SMS thread. Here’s how it works: The phishing scam starts by informing users regarding the ...

Surround and conquer is Facebook’s new strategy for getting people to switch from SMS to Messenger. You can now read and send old-school text messages from inside Facebook Messenger for Android. By ...

Victims of a massive bank scam rampant last month were fooled because fake SMS messages appeared in the same SMS thread as genuine ones sent previously by the bank for one-time passwords (OTPs) and ...

The forum software ate my previous post, so here's v2.0, the short version. I have an iPhone and an iPad, both attached to iMessage via a phone number AND my apple id. A friend who I tried this with ...

Starting from 31 January 2023, SMS messages sent by organisations not registered with the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) registry will be labelled as "likely scams". (Photo: Getty ...

Will was the Phones Editor at Android Police from August 2022 to May 2025, which usually meant his desk was covered in a dozen different smartphones at any given time. Prior to that, he was a news ...

Here's one that came up in a discussion about sending an SMS message to someone just down the block: Do SMS messages go directly device-to-device over the network, or do they get stored? And if they ...