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Better Business Bureau updates study on lottery/sweepstakes scams
- US Ambassador to Jamaica says US loses $500 million – $1 billion each year to Jamaican lottery scammers
- Complaint numbers down last year, but losses reported increase dramatically; may be 35% increase
- Scammers took advantage of the pandemic
- 72% of victims are over 55; scammers target older victims
- Looks at why victims keep sending money; it is not just the old and frail
- 60 second BBB PSA
- CBS aired a piece
- Used by Italian OC; motorcycle gangs, drug gangs
- Used by 300 gangs
- 700 house searches
- Seize 8 tons cocaine; 22 tons cannabis
- FBI release on this effort
Robocalls are down in the US over the last year
US seizes most of the ransom paid by Colonial Pipeline
Reviews and Recommendations: Broken Windows, by James Q. Wilson. The authors found that if one window is broken in a building the public concludes no one really cares, and the others are quickly shattered as well. The same idea holds true for Disney World; when litter is quickly picked up, people litter far less. This also applies to crime; where minor crime issues are addressed there is far less overall crime.
. Here are links to some of the study topics: puppy fraud, tech support fraud, romance fraud money mules, apartment rental, crooked movers, government imposters, online vehicle sale scams, rental fraud and gift cards.
