It’s not uncommon for Bob Ritter to be surrounded by phones. After all, the 81-year-old historian with the Southampton Historical Society works at the Vincentown & Tabernacle Telephone museum. A black ...

NAPERVILLE, Ill. (WLS) -- Spoof phone calls where the caller ID has the name of a company, but is associated with a fake number, is a common scam. People now need to be on the lookout for spoof calls ...

Although the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has effectively banned number spoofing from robocalls, that only prevents someone from making up a fake caller ID to try to trick you into ...

Caller ID used to be a very simple thing in the “landline phones and copper wires” days. If somebody called you, their number showed up on the display, and if it didn’t, then the caller had ...

The privacy issues surrounding Caller ID telephone service continue to rage. Phone companies are scrambling to find more add-on services to appease both sides. In the process, it's all getting really ...

They vanished for a while, but “No Caller ID” calls are back, and not always for the better. These days, lots of people across the US are seeing more anonymous calls. Some are harmless, like delivery ...

Seeing “Unknown Caller” appear when your phone rings can be a bit unsettling. Most of us are never quite sure whether to take a chance and answer these calls or send them off to our voicemail. After ...

It never fails: Just as you sit down to enjoy a nice meal with the family, your phone rings. Sigh. Even more annoying is the fact that a glance at your smartphone screen doesn’t show who’s calling.

The project was created to provide a solution for storing unlimited caller ID phone numbers by showing its schematic and software required for decoding and storing the data. The project was created to ...

LANSING — Police are cautioning residents to be on high alert after receiving a report of a potential telephone scam. The latest scam is reaching Lansing residents' phone lines through calls that have ...

Nobody likes receiving calls from No Caller ID numbers, as they're usually scams. But there might be cases where you'll want your iPhone or Android to hide your phone number to protect your privacy.