According to the Federal Trade Commission, people lost $851 million to phone scams in 2023. After email, phone scams are the most common fraud method reported to the FTC. (Getty Images) The first rule ...

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Ireland is experiencing a significant rise in scam calls that appear to be coming from the UK, according to ComReg ...

For many shoppers, having a call go through to voicemail might mean moving on to the next dealer. And according to a new industry study, when shoppers search for cars, parts or auto services on their ...

Oddly enough, when the phone wasn’t ringing, that was its own kind of signal. Usually, work had slowed down. Silence might ...

Across the United States, a quiet shift is underway in the way local governments answer the phone. Non-emergency calls that once rang straight through to human dispatchers are increasingly being ...

You've probably experienced this scene: you're calling your daughter, your nephew or a younger colleague, and you get a ring tone that rings... before ending up on voicemail. However, just a few ...

Imagine your phone ringing on the breakfast bar across the room. Could it be the job offer you’ve waited all week for? But—drat—you’re smack in the middle of changing your three-month-old, who’s made ...

Hurricanes Helene and Milton have left the Federal Emergency Management Agency struggling to handle phone calls from survivors and maintain staffing. HENDERSONVILLE, North Carolina — Mike Toomey ...

Rahul Naskar has years of experience writing news and features related to Android, phones, and apps. Outside the tech world, he follows global events and developments shaping the world of geopolitics.

Well...it's happening again. One generation is being called out by another, and for once, millennials are not the target. Gen Z is on the hook (that's a phone pun for ...