(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 ...

Your phone rings, but you don’t recognize the number, or sometimes it just comes up as an “unknown number”. Your best move is to let it go to voicemail and then check it out. It could be a cold ...

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 ...

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.

Two years ago, I got a new phone number. In the eyes of my social media and ride-hailing apps, Amazon, my bank, and the state of Pennsylvania, that effectively meant I lost my identity. Only recently ...