WLWT

'It's really easy to spoof a phone number': Phishing and smishing scams on the rise

As technology and artificial intelligence are on the rise, so are the scams.No matter your age or how technology-friendly you are, scams are getting harder and harder to detect. Cyber Security ...
KENS

What To Do If Someone Is Spoofing Your Phone Number

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - Spoof phone calls are becoming more and more common. It happens when someone changes their caller ID to a different number, trying to trick you into answering. It's a tactic ...

Scammers use ‘spoof’ PSNI telephone number to scam student out of almost £3,000

Fraudsters are using technology to impersonate telephone numbers linked to the PSNI, it has been warned after a Belfast-based ...
Which

How to protect yourself from number spoofing scams

Chiara is an award-winning investigative reporter who specialises in banking and fraud, joining Which? in 2015 following six years as a personal finance journalist at a national newspaper. Caller and ...
Independent Record

Spoofing scam uses court phone number to demand payments

The city of Helena tweeted out a scam alert Monday stating that the city’s Municipal Court and the Helena Police Department are being used in a spoofing scam. A spoofing scam is when a scammer ...
WIBW

Wamego Police warn of scammer spoofing agency phone number

WAMEGO, Kan. (WIBW) - The Wamego Police Department has warned residents that a scammer has begun to spoof the agency’s phone number in an attempt to defraud residents. The Wamego Police Department ...
The Cincinnati Enquirer

Racist spoof text messages spam Black Americans in the US. Here's what to know about spoofing

Receiving spoof texts with racist messages? They're not to be entertained, and it's best to ignore them. This week, racist text messages are being sent to Black Americans, telling them they are ...