A recentreport by the Better Business Bureau(BBB) said that up to 30 percent of romance scam victims in 2018 were used as money mules. Faux romance Of course, dating sites and apps remain rewarding hunting grounds also for the more usual kind of confidence/romance fraud, where the false ad...
"Many victims report extortion by law enforcement and government impersonators in connection with other types of fraud. A romance scam victim begins to realize they are being defrauded and stops communicating with the scammer. Often, the victim is contacted by a law enforcement impersonator attempting...
The FBI reported on Wednesday that Montanans lost nearly $380,000 to online scammers in 2020. According to theFBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center’s (IC3) 2020 report, non-payment or non-delivery scams cost people more than $264 million. Credit card fraud accounted for another $129 milli...
Many other, more established types of Internet crimes — such as romance scams and advanced fee fraud — earned top rankings in the report. Check out the full reporthere(PDF). The FBI urges all victims of computer crimes to report the incidents atIC3.gov. The IC3 unit is part of the ...
BEC schemes, as the bureau notes, is “a fraud targeting businesses that regularly perform wire transfer payments. The scam is carried out when perpetrators compromise e-mail accounts through social engineering or through computer intrusion techniques to fraudulently direc...
Whether you plan to brave the crowds on Black Friday or prefer to shop from home on Cyber Monday, the Phoenix FBI office is reminding all of us to watch out for scams this holiday season.
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The FBI cautioned against four types of scams: non-delivery, when consumers pay for goods online but never receive the items; non-payment, when purchased goods are shipped but consumers never receive payment; auction fraud, when a product is misrepresented on an auction site; and gift card ...
The technique and switch to cryptocurrency differs from previous years when a senior executive's email address may have been spoofed and used to instruct a subordinate to wire funds to the fraudster's bank account. The FBI report notes that tech support fraud continues to be a growing problem...