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Dec 30, 2023 · Text message-based scams are an especially popular type of phone-based scams. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) says one reason may be that texting is cheap and easy. According to its 2022 Consumer Sentinel Network Data Book , Americans lost over $330 million to text scams in 2022.
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Sep 26, 2024 · Sextortion scams are getting kicked up a notch, and the Komando information technology genius, John, is the latest target. John received a shady email with a PDF attached. It included his full ...
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Dec 20, 2023 · With the Paris games coming up this summer, Nofziger suspects that we may start seeing a revival of the fake emergency scam, which bears similarities to the grandparent scam but is slightly different. It could work something like this: A scammer hacks someone’s email account, and shortly after, all of that person’s contacts will receive the same message — something to the effect of ...
Sep 4, 2024 · Online scams reach new heights as FBI reports record surge 03:14. More people than ever are reporting online scams. The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center received more than 880,000 complaints ...
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- Imposter scams. Imposter scams remained the top fraud category, with reported losses of $2.7 billion. These scams include people pretending to be your bank’s fraud department, the government, a relative in distress, a well-known business, or a technical support expert.
- Investment scams. While investment-related scams were the fourth most-reported fraud category, losses in this category grew. People reported median losses of $7.7K – up from $5K in 2022.
- Social media scams. Scams starting on social media accounted for the highest total losses at $1.4 billion – an increase of 250 million from 2022. But scams that started by a phone call caused the highest per-person loss ($1,480 average loss).
- Payment methods. How did scammers prefer that people pay? With bank transfers and payments, which accounted for the highest losses ($1.86 billion). Cryptocurrency is a close second ($1.41 billion reported in losses).
Nov 7, 2024 · Corrections & Clarifications: A previous version of this story included data provided to USA TODAY that misstated the amount lost to scams globally last year. It was $1.026 billion. Scammers have ...
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May 24, 2024 · People most frequently named Facebook and Instagram in these reports, [6] and most often reported online shopping scams that started with ads on social media. However, the largest reported losses to scams starting on social media platforms were to investment scams. How scammers get their money varies by the type of scam, too.
