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US Better Business Bureau releases annual report on complaints to its Scam Tracker system

  • Median dollars lost increased from $100 to $130
  • Crypto romance frauds top the list
  • Employment scams second; romance scams third
  • Online shopping falls out of the top 3 for the first time
  • Publisher’s Clearinghouse most impersonated organization
  • Top platform or hearing from scammers was Facebook, at 57%
  • 45% of scams involved crypto

FTC announces plans for National Consumer Protection Week March 2-8


Canada’s Fraud Protection Month in March focusses on impersonation fraud

Scammers that moved people into the US from India force them to collect gold from fraud victims or the scammers will report them for deportation

Full report here