A $10.5 million settlement calls for damages to be paid to class members who received text messages after opting out.

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- As a producer for Action News, it's literally Ryan Parmer's job to stay in the know. "Because of where we work, I'm always on alert for these kinds of things," Parmer said of a ...

Here is how to stay safe as criminals increasingly target smartphone owners.

Beware of text messages with promises to win or a call to action! Because it is precisely messages like these that repeatedly ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ‘Wrong Phone Number’ Scams Are on the Rise - Kostenko Maxim / Shutterstock.com If you've received an innocent-sounding text from a ...

THE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION SAYS THE PERCENTAGE OF PEOPLE WHO WILL OPEN A TEXT MESSAGE WHEN THEY RECEIVE IT IS AS HIGH AS 98%, AND THOSE ARE GOOD ODDS FOR A SCAMMER. IN FACT, I JUST GOT ONE THIS WEEK ...

“What happens when you send a text message to a landline telephone? Does their phone ring, does it show up on caller ID, or do they pick up and hear something like a dial-up modem?” Most of the time, ...