Rock Island police said the alert was issued at 6:42 a.m., however, many people didn't receive the notification on their phones until hours later.

Phone scammers posing as Amber Alert "representatives" are offering to meet at homes and gather personal information to "register" children, a procedure that is not actually practiced.

Earlier this week, the California Highway Patrol sent an Amber Alert ... the use of a cell-site simulator, a controversial spy device that intercepts sensitive data from every phone in its range.

The fraud involves con artists who call parents on the phone and offer to "register" their children for the AMBER Alert system ... Once activated, the alerts are sent to mobile devices across ...

Phone scammers are posing as Amber Alert representatives to register children to the abduction emergency system, the California Highway Patrol warned Sunday. The Templeton division of the agency ...

The Quad Cities community is questioning an apparent delay in Thursday morning’s Amber Alert ... However, the mobile notification system did not send the alert to many people's phones until ...