FBI’s Internet Fraud Complaint Center issues new report on crypto fraud
- Victims reported losses of $5.6 billion in crypto in 2023
- That’s a 45% increase over the 2022
- Investments, almost surely meaning crypto romance fraud, accounted for 71% of those losses
- But also large sums lost to tech support and romance scams
- Most of those complaints were from people over 60
- These complaints account for half of all reported money losses
FINcen releases in depth report on check fraud due to mail theft
- Studied February through August 2023
- Most common stolen checks are altered and deposited
- Second most common is checks used as templates for a counterfeit check
- Third was just signing and depositing checks
- Most fake checks deposited through ATM’s
- Here’s the study I did on fake check fraud
