FTC warns of a recent surge in robocall scammers pretending to be Apple and Amazon
These increasingly widespread robocalls take advantage of prerecorded messages designed to fool people into providing their iCloud and Amazon account credentials
These increasingly widespread robocalls take advantage of prerecorded messages designed to fool people into providing their iCloud and Amazon account credentials
Anti-robocall legislation was passed by the House of Representatives with wide bipartisan support and has moved on to the Senate.
In iOS 13, you can have the Phone app automatically send any incoming calls from people not found in Contacts, Mail and Messages to your voicemail, and iDB shows you how.
“It’s a bad day to be a scammer,” said the carrier as it launched a new feature that offers customers even more protection from scammers and spammers than before.
Apple could finally be getting serious about helping to eliminate nuisance calls on iPhones. A new patent targets spoofing calls.
WhatsApp believes its new spam-prevention features, which are currently being tested with some users ahead of a wider rollout, will help users keep those pesky spammy post under control.
Starting with iOS 10, Apple is allowing a new type of applications in the App Store: apps that can detect and block spam phone calls from telemarketers, debt collectors, scammers, and automated systems. These apps act as an extension of the Phone application, and in theory, they can help you filter out those calls from people you don’t want to talk to.
In this post, we will have a look at how these applications work and how to use them.
Apple wants to get into social networking, but not as a rival to Facebook or Twitter. Instead, the iPhone maker envisions a way to better protect mobile users against spammers and stalkers.
Tuesday, the United States Patent and Trademark Office approved a 2010 application for a friend service of sorts which could underlie current social networks.
The patent titled “Apparatus and method for efficiently managing data in a social networking service” describes methods for maintaining three databases which oversee friends within a network, handles for out-of-network contacts and a third to log changes. Among the potential advantages: preventing a flood of friend requests and ignoring contact attempts by stalkers…