The Federal Trade Commission has established a toll-free phone number that makes it easier and cheaper for consumers to report fraud.NORMAND M
Since 2021, Americans lost $2.7 billion in scams from social media, the Federal Trade Commission said in a scamreportpublished Friday. And that figure is only a fraction of the actual harm, as most cases of fraud go unreported, the agency noted. People continue to fall victim to social med...
according to a newreportfrom the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Amazon and PayPal were the second and third most frequently impersonated companies, the agency said. Scammers dupe customers through multiple channels, including phone, email and social media, swindling them out of ...
Scammers are making more money per episode of fraud, new government data suggests. While the number offraud reports recordedthrough the Federal Trade Commission's database fell to 2.4 million in 2022 from 2.9 million, the aggregate loss from those instances reached nearly $8.8 billion. That's ...
Because the government has passed legislation offering various kinds of financial relief to consumers, some scammers are trying to take undue advantage of that, too. In one effort to combat this type of crime, the Small Business Administration is asking people to contact them directly, either by...
In 2018 alone, a report found that the number of … Tech Yoni Heisler 6 years ago The new wave of Netflix phishing attacks is so bad that the FTC issued a warning The year may be drawing to a close but that doesn’t mean scammers are taking any time off for the holidays. A ...
Anyone who asks for a card number and PIN could also be signs of a scam. Consumers are asked to report any scam to the FTC at ReportFraud.ftc.gov. This story was reported from Cincinnati. ConsumerTechnologyU.S.ConsumerTechnologyU.S.BREAKING...
The scam artists lure would-be entrepreneurs with false promises of big earnings for little effort. They pitch their fraudulent offerings on the Web; in e-mail solicitations; through infomercials, classified ads and newspaper and magazine "advertorials"; and in flyers, telemarketing pitches, semina...
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