In an age of constant communication, receiving phone calls or messages from unknown numbers has become increasingly common. Whether it's a missed call from an unfamiliar number, a potential scam or a ...

You can contact the governor's office online through its website. According to the League of Women Voters, most elected officials don't have direct email addresses, preferring you contact them through ...

Our phones are a direct line to us, but sometimes we don’t want to give our numbers out to just anyone. They have more information attached to them than we might realize. Instead of giving your real ...

When most of us think of two phones, we think of them having two separate numbers. You may have a personal phone and a phone for work that operate completely independently of one another, each with ...

How does WhatsApp use your phone number? That’s a question on people’s minds as the messaging giant continues to dominate mobile devices. As a Facebook-owned entity, privacy-conscious people wouldn’t ...

If you want to avoid a flood of calls from potential pranksters to your business's phone, you can sign up for a Gmail number. Once you have acquired a number, you can give it out to customers or ...

The phone number that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was using to discuss sensitive war plans on Signal was used on multiple other public platforms, according to The New York Times. Hegseth’s number ...

The TruePeopleSearch.com website works with both landline and cellphone numbers. It allows you to do a reverse phone lookup for any type of phone number, whether it's a cellphone or a landline. It's ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Update, Jan. 25, 2025: This story, originally published Jan.

Phone scams are on the rise, and they’re getting more sophisticated. The statistics are dizzying. On imposter scammers alone, the FTC reports that US consumers lost $2.7 billion in 2023, and the ...

Last month, we looked at how scammers can gain access to your phone number and how data breaches and phishing campaigns could make obtaining it easy. In this blogpost, we’ll focus more on why phone ...

What might be one of the easiest ways to scam someone out of their money – anonymously, of course? Would it involve stealing their credit card data, perhaps using digital skimming or after hacking ...