(CBS News) It can be a bit disorienting when your phone rings and your own home phone number comes up on the caller ID. But will you answer the phone? Scammers are betting you will, or at least you'll ...

Last Tuesday morning my wife fell victim to a phone scam and I want to alert everyone I know about this fraud. She got a "wrong" number call asking for "Jason." When she said he had the wrong number ...

I’ve had the same phone number since 2003, and my father used the same phone number for at least five years prior to that. As far as my personal identity goes, my phone number ranks higher than my ...

Our personal tech columnist asked security researchers what they could find out about him from just his cellphone number. Quite a lot, it turns out. By Brian X. Chen For most of our lives, we have ...

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) -- If you tried calling Shirley Colon, a prerecorded voice picked up. "The number you've dialed has been changed, disconnected or is no longer in service," the message told callers.