Newly released data from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) reveal a staggering $12.5 billion in consumer losses to fraud in ...
You're not the only one getting voicemails about your car's extended warranty. According to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission ...
2025 Spotlight: Email and Text as Preferred Contact Methods The FTC reports that the percentage of imposter scams that start ...
Fraud losses hit a record $12.5 billion in 2024, up 25% from 2023. Imposter scams topped the list, but employement scams ...
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Texts have been the most common type of scam since August 2020. The FCC says that scammers impersonate all types of companies, including subscription services, package and mail carriers ...
The company, which tracks publicly available transaction data on the blockchain to identify scam revenue, said crypto fraud activity grew 24% each year on average since 2020. Cryptocurrencies ...
Massachusetts is part of that trend. Yearly reports of romance scams for victims 60 and older jumped from 66 in 2020 to 166 last year, according to data obtained exclusively by the Globe from the ...
The scams come in all shapes and sizes. Depending on how much effort the scammers put into it, they could call you with details of your life. I read one story where a grandmother was going to wire ...
Lil Yachty wasn’t the first rapper to call Black Lives Matter a scam; Ye — formerly Kanye Wes t — also referred to the organization as a scam in a post to his Instagram Story in 2022. “EVERYONE KNOWS ...