There is nothing more annoying than relaxing, working, or spending time with friends, only to be interrupted by spam calls and unwanted text messages. It never stops with one, more are bound to come ...

It seems hyperbolic to say that nobody answers the phone anymore, but with spam calls reaching unprecedented levels and younger generations who prefer to communicate by text and audio messages, it’s ...

Since the release of iOS 26 for the Apple iPhone family on 15 September, scammers no longer bother me thanks to the Call ...

Apple's iOS 26 introduced a new call filtering feature for unknown numbers. The feature allows users to screen or silence unknown numbers, or ask why they're calling. I tried it out for a few days, ...

Update: Republished on April 23 with a new report into the massive scale of organized criminal gangs now pushing these threats to your phone. Your phone, your data and your money are at risk. There is ...

Seeing “Unknown Caller” appear when your phone rings can be a bit unsettling. Most of us are never quite sure whether to take a chance and answer these calls or send them off to our voicemail. After ...

Although the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has effectively banned number spoofing from robocalls, that only prevents someone from making up a fake caller ID to try to trick you into ...

Caller ID used to be a very simple thing in the “landline phones and copper wires” days. If somebody called you, their number showed up on the display, and if it didn’t, then the caller had ...

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