Vector flat phone chat bubbles. Sms messages. Speech bubbles. Short message service bubbles.(Getty Images/iStockphoto/Ihor Kashurin) Q: I received a text message from 77958 with a security code for ...

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Q: I received a text message from 77958 with a security code for the IRS Password Service. How can I tell if this really is the IRS? A: Tax filing season is “Christmas for Criminals” and every year we ...

Texting scams are exploding. In 2024 alone, U.S. consumers lost $470 million to them, according to the Federal Trade Commission, a number more than five times what it was just four years earlier. To ...

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Premium messaging providers are NOT public interest groups.... I'd like to know what in the public interest, other than premiuim messaging, is in the public interest of allowing short codes I think ...