Texting rises as a popular means of fraud in the US


For the last three decades, mobile texting has been a part of our digital lives. — Dreamstime/TNS

Step away from that phone.

It is, of course, Americans’ principal device for sending messages, scrolling social media, checking on headlines, reading emails and even – occasionally – making a call to talk with someone. And since Americans increasingly prefer text to, you know, actually using the phone for talking to another person, it’s no surprise that texting is catching on with scamsters.

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