Don’t Give Out Your Phone Number—This is Why. Though we all know that our phone number is private and important to us, as an individual or a business, there is something seemingly arbitrary about giving it out to someone, especially in the unassuming environment of the Internet. It’s getting more and more difficult to keep our personal
It’s easy to understand why crooks love to dial you up. Based on the results of a March 2021 survey, call-security app maker Truecaller estimates that Americans lost $29.8 billion to phone scams in the previous 12 months, up from $19.7 billion a year earlier. Some 59 million Americans lost money to a phone scam during that period, according to the report, with the ...
Phone number theft: Scammers are stealing phone numbers, which can leave you vulnerable to other forms of identity theft. The scam is clever: A malevolent actor calls your cellphone carrier