The term “smishing” is a mash-up of “SMS” and “phishing,” and it refers to a scam carried out via cell phone text. Scammers often try to frighten targets into clicking the link by ...

QUINCY – My turn to receive the latest fraudulent "smishing" scam arrived at 9:27 a.m. Sunday when a text message appeared on my iPhone. It told me that I owed money for unpaid tolls on state ...

Several Massachusetts police departments are warning people to not fall victim to a "smishing" scam. According to police, hundreds of reports have come in of a text scammer requesting EZDrive ...

Beware: texts are part of the latest “smishing” scam, according to the Massachusetts Department of Transportation. The texts say that the recipient owes money for EZ pass tolls and include a ...

Fraudsters are attempting to dismantle built-in scam protections by Apple on iOS ... it is no surprise that threat actors are increasingly using smishing (SMS phishing) attacks on mobile numbers.

If you're getting weird texts and phone calls and phone numbers you don't recognize, there could be smishing attempts to scam you. Smishing is a form of phishing, the fraudulent practice of ...