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Scammers apparently keep something resembling business hours. New research from Malwarebytes found that fraudulent text messages in the U.S. aren't arriving randomly. They surge during daytime hours, ...

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In 2025, victims lost $3.5 billion (1) to imposter scams. Now, CBS News chief correspondent Matt Gutman nearly became a victim of one of those scams. “I just got SCAMMED,” Matt Gutman posted in a ...

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It starts quietly. Your phone buzzes. You see a voicemail notification. But your phone never rang. Then it happens again. And again. Before long, your voicemail inbox looks like it's under attack.