GAO issues new study of consumer fraud in the US
- Urges a government-wide strategy to fight them
- Suggest complaint databases be harmonized
- Find a way to measure how effective education efforts really are
FTC releases new data on top text message scams of 2024
- $470 million reported losses; five times that of 2020
- Top five text scams are:
- Fake package deliveries
- Phony job scams
- Fake fraud alerts
- Bogus claims of unpaid tolls
- As much a 98% of people open and read texts
National Elder Fraud Coordination Center begins operating
