Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new phishing scam seems to be popping up every month, which can make it hard to stay alert. While some of these scams are more ...

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I've been asked to do something I have no knowledge of. A client wants to acquire a handful of short text message codes that, when sent a text to via cell phones, spits back out via text some ...