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Q: I received a text message from 77958 with a security code for the IRS Password Service. How can I tell if this really is the IRS? A: Tax filing season is “Christmas for Criminals” and every year we ...

Texting scams are exploding. In 2024 alone, U.S. consumers lost $470 million to them, according to the Federal Trade Commission, a number more than five times what it was just four years earlier. To ...

A new study claims that the industry average for an SMS text message response from a common short code was approximately 9 seconds. The fastest common short code responded in less than 6 seconds and ...

Text messaging is a preferred communication channel with a 97 percent open rate. Businesses can reach busy customers with relevant and time sensitive information at the rate of 35 messages per second ...