Q: I just received a call from someone claiming to be with Microsoft who told me my Windows software license had expired. Is this legitimate? A: Let's waste no time upfront. This is nothing but a ...

Caller ID spoofing has long been the domain of pranksters and scammers, but although the technology often is used unethically, there may be a few legitimate reasons why you would want to disguise your ...

There have been many recent articles published and posts circulating regarding caller ID spoofing (IP spoofing, but with phone numbers). I have no problem with reporting recent incidents that have ...

They vanished for a while, but “No Caller ID” calls are back, and not always for the better. These days, lots of people across the US are seeing more anonymous calls. Some are harmless, like delivery ...

Caller ID is available in most parts of the U.S. For calls transmitted over landlines, there are rules about callers, particularly corporations and businesses, arranging things so that the caller ID ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Phone scammers are targetting people’s social security information, according to the Fayette County Sheriff’s Office. The scammer “claims to be from the Social Security office and ...

In the rapid transition to remote instruction and work, IT Services enabled softphone technologies (i.e., Webex Teams and Jabber) to allow people working remotely to use their Miami phone number when ...

Sunnyvale officials received complaints of an apparent phone scam Thursday, in which the caller identifies himself as representing the “Sunnyvale Computer Department.” According to city officials, the ...

Supplementing the background information on this patent, NewsRx reporters also obtained the inventors’ summary information for this patent: “Accordingly, various disclosed embodiments provide a system ...

It’s no secret that the era of the landline telephone is slowly coming to a close. As of 2020, it was estimated that less than half the homes in America still subscribed to plain old telephone service ...