Unwanted or nuisance calls are high on the list of things that irritate people. They could be from telemarketers, scammers, or even someone you don’t want to talk to. Whatever the matter may be, the good news is that you can do something about some phone calls you never expect. How to Stop Prank Calls…
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Holiday Phone Scams in 2023 and How to Avoid Them
The holiday season when you may be more vulnerable to fraud and scams than usual as your attention is drawn in so many directions has just gone. Looking back to the days around a holiday, have you ever received robocalls or scam calls? Have you noticed that you get more scam calls during the holidays?…
A Can’t-Miss Guide on Blocking Telemarketing Calls
Telemarketing calls are often considered to be intrusive or annoying, particularly when they interrupt your sleep, dinner, or time with family or friends. What’s worse, they will bombard you with endless calls recommending their substandard yet pricy goods which you either don’t need or can buy on the Amazon at a more reasonable price. This…
How to Block a Phone Number on a Landline
Telemarketers or spam calls are just two reasons why a person might need to block incoming calls. Telemarketers, for example, are forbidden by law to mask their phone numbers to try and get around call blocking or caller ID. It is not easy to block a number on the landline as we do on Android…
How to Look Up Phone Numbers
Looking up phone numbers is something many of us do, and there are all sorts of reasons behind it. Some folks want to figure out who’s calling from an unknown number – you know, those pesky telemarketers or maybe even scammers. By digging into these numbers, they hope to find out more about the caller,…
How to Spot and Avoid Travel Scams
Travel scams can cost you money and ruin your vacation, but the results could wind up being a lot worse than that. A hacker or thief who accesses your personal information could steal your identity without you even knowing, in which case you could spend thousands of dollars and several years getting back on your…
How to Block a Phone Number on Your Smartphone
With so many robocalls and phone scams happening every day, most of us know that the most logical and safest response to a call from an unfamiliar phone number usually doesn’t involve answering our smartphone with a warm greeting. Scam phone numbers are used every day to trick unsuspecting people into revealing their private information…
8 Top Banking Fraud to Watch in 2023
In the Wake of Covid-19, published in December 2020, the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners found that 79 percent of respondents had seen rising fraud levels in the final months of 2020. Some 90 percent expected a further increase during 2021. The most serious areas of concern were cyber-fraud, including business email compromise, where 85…
What is Call Screening And How Does It Work?
No one expects robocalls, spam calls, and telemarketer calls. Over the past few years, many companies that have relied on spam calls have been able to call more people than ever before, much to the dismay of many. Sometimes spam callers rely on trickery to try and get you to answer the phone. By calling…
How to Stop Spam Text Messages on Smartphones
Spam texts are a growing problem, with billions of them sent every day. Americans received 225 billion spam texts in 2022, a 157% increase year-over-year. There are almost 300,000 spam texts sent per minute. Spam texts can be annoying, but they can also be dangerous. Receiving texts from unknown numbers is upsetting, to say the…