News, tips and guides about SMS and mobile telephony.
Loyalty cards, forms, deliveries, classified ads: your mobile number circulates far more widely than you think. Here's where scam texts really come from and how to cut their volume for good.
33700 is France's official number for reporting fraudulent text messages. Here is what really happens after you forward one, what the system can do, what it cannot do, and how to report effectively in 2026.
After an SMS scam, everything hinges on the first three days: freezing the payment, gathering evidence, reporting to 33700, filing a complaint and claiming a refund. Here's the hour-by-hour playbook.
Your child is getting their first phone: here are the text-message settings worth turning on in the first hour, the ones that only create a false sense of security, and the three sentences to teach them.
Fake video game giveaways, sextortion, hacked Snapchat accounts, bogus side jobs: the fraudulent texts aimed at 12- to 18-year-olds follow precise playbooks. How to spot them and talk to your teen without confiscating their phone.
A downed cell tower, a mountain dead zone, a nearly flat phone: text messaging is the last channel still getting through. A practical guide to reaching loved ones and emergency services when the network collapses.
