WASHINGTON (AP) — Scammers stole more than $3.4 billion from older Americans last year, according to an FBI report released Tuesday that shows a rise in losses through increasingly sophisticated ...
Americans reported losing $5.6 billion to cryptocurrency scams in 2023, with older Americans hit the hardest, according to ...
Even the Bitcoin machine where she deposited the money had a warning, in big red letters, to beware of scams and fraud. But ...
For the first time, the FBI has published a cryptocurrency-focused fraud report to warn about the growing threat of scammers and ... hitting an estimated $3.96 billion last year.
The most rampant scheme was investment fraud, which accounted for $3.96 billion of the losses ... the FBI's criminal investigative division. Scammers will often make contact through dating ...
Increasingly, scammers are incorporating cryptocurrency ... Scams targeting people aged 60 and older generated more than $3.4 billion in losses in 2023, according to the FBI Internet Crime ...
Former Heartland Tri-State Bank CEO Shan Hanes was duped by scammers in a “pig butchering ... In early 2023, he stole $40,000 from Elkhart Church of Christ and $10,000 from the Santa Fe ...
The center estimates the measurable direct cost of financial fraud to Americans to be $40 billion to $50 billion ... We’ll recover the cash scammers stole Adding insult to injury, "recovery ...
Annette Manes, a widowed social worker, is a victim of a scheme that drained $1.4 million over the course of 279 days, reports Bloomberg. Manes says the scammers ... 255% over the last three years, ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Scammers stole more than $3.4 billion from older Americans last year, according to an FBI report released Tuesday that shows a rise in losses through increasingly sophisticated ...