If you get an urgent text message about a package, it's probably a scam. Here's how to tell, and how to avoid getting suckered.

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Reports of scam text messages and phone calls in the Philippines fell sharply in 2025, according to data presented by the Cybercrime Investigation and ...

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CONSUMER INVESTIGATOR BRIAN ROCHE HAS THE ANSWER. A VIEWER NAMED CHARLES JUST SENT ME THIS TEXT MESSAGE THROUGH EMAIL. HE POINTED OUT THERE WERE NO MISSPELLINGS, AND SOME OF THE OTHER TELLTALE SIGNS ...

First, it was phony parking tickets, then toll road scams, now scammers are at it again with an all-new, all-bad DMV text scam. The unfortunate popularity of this latest grift has caused states from ...