WOW.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Mobile phone spam - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone_spam

   Mobile phone spam is a form of spam (unsolicited messages, especially advertising), directed at the text messaging or other communications services of mobile phones or smartphones. As the popularity of mobile phones surged in the early 2000s, frequent users of text messaging began to see an increase in the number of unsolicited (and generally ...

3. SMS spoofing - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_spoofing

   SMS spoofing. SMS spoofing is a technology which uses the short message service (SMS), available on most mobile phones and personal digital assistants, to set who the message appears to come from by replacing the originating mobile number (Sender ID) with alphanumeric text. Spoofing has both legitimate uses (setting the company name from which ...

4. Phone fraud - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phone_fraud

   A variant is a call forwarding scam, where a fraudster tricks a subscriber into call forwarding their number to either a long-distance number or a number at which the fraudster or an accomplice is accepting collect calls. The unsuspecting subscriber then gets a huge long-distance bill for all of these calls. [3]

5. What You Need to Know About Phone Scams - AOL

   www.aol.com/know-phone-scams-180248742.html

   Scammers know how to fake a phone number Kerskie describes a scam where a client received a spoof call from what he thought was his daughter’s phone. The caller claimed his daughter was in ...

6. What You Need to Know About Spam Calls and 7 Ways to ... - AOL

   www.aol.com/know-spam-calls-7-ways-155540966.html

   T-Mobile is the only cell-phone service provider to offer Scam Shield, a powerful toolset in fighting scam artists that is included in T-Mobile, Metro by T-Mobile and Sprint phone plans with no ...

7. 30 Scam Phone Numbers To Block and Area Codes To Avoid - AOL

   www.aol.com/19-dangerous-scam-phone-numbers...

   Here are examples of three of the most common scams out there today and how to block these spam calls. 1. One-Ring Scams. Scammers use one-ring scams to get you, the victim, to call back. The ...