I seem to be getting more spam text messages on my phone these days; I reply with ‘stop’ like they say, but it doesn’t always seem to work. – Andrea Spammers are notorious for figuring out ways to ...

Simply hitting “STOP” on spam texts isn’t always effective — and definitely not profitable. This is what you can do instead.

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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has asked a judge to shut down an alleged text-messaging spam operation that sent out 85 text messages per minute at its peak, the agency said Wednesday. The alleged ...

The falling cost of text messaging is making mobile-phone users a more attractive target for spammers, according to the GSM Association. To counter this, it wants its mobile-network-operator members ...

It's 3 a.m., and your cellphone starts making its instantly recognizable, impossible-to-ignore you-just-got-a-text sound. Your heart starts pounding. Is a loved one hurt? Is there some crisis at work?

Anonymous text messages containing disturbing content — such as claiming Black Americans had been “selected to pick cotton” — were sent the day after Election Day, targeting recipients in more than 20 ...

The overwhelming majority of e-mail messages circulating the globe are junk messages trying to sell us special pills and better mortgage rates. It’s made using e-mail more of a chore than it needs to ...