Morning Overview on MSN

6 text-message scams that spiked this year, and how to spot them fast

Americans lost $470 million to scams that began with a single text message in 2024, according to data the Federal Trade ...

How To Avoid Text Scams And Spot Red Flags Early

Scam texts are becoming more sophisticated. Learn how to spot the warning signs, avoid common schemes, and protect yourself ...
Consumer Reports

Text Message Scam Attempts Have Increased by 50 Percent, a Consumer Reports Survey Finds

Text message scam attempts have increased by 50 percent in the past year, with young adults experiencing the sharpest rise of any age group. That’s one of several important findings in the 2025 Cyber ...
Forbes

Why Medicaid Needs A Text Message Exemption Now

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about health innovation, care access barriers and prevention. The TCPA, a decades-old law governed by the Federal ...
WCVB Channel 5 Boston

That Verizon $20 credit text is real, here's how to claim it

Did you get this text from Verizon about *** $20 credit? This one is real. Here's what's going on. So after an outage knocked out service for customers nationwide, Verizon now says it's going to give ...

7th Circuit hears argument on whether the TCPA applies to text messages

Bart T. Murphy of Ice Miller LLP discusses a case before the 7th Circuit as to whether the Telephone Consumer Protection Act applies to text messages after the Supreme Court's decisions that courts ...