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FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center releases data for 2023

  • Reported losses in 2019 were $3.5 billion; 2023 $12.5 billion
  • Crypto romance fraud was $4  billion
  • Tech support fraud up significantly
  • $60 million paid to ransomware
  • Job and government impersonation also big jumps

Interpol ties Nigerian scam gangs Black Axe, Airlords and Supreme Eiye to kidnappings to work at scam call centers and widespread crypto romance frauds

Australia’s scam call center issues quarterly report

Investment fraud (crypto romance) drops 38%

Joseph Epstein in the WSJ: All scam callers get from me is a little taste of Gershwin

Full report here