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- All Scams - Federal Trade Commission
The official website of the Federal Trade Commission, protecting America’s consumers for over 100 years
- New FTC Data Show Top Text Message Scams of 2024; Overall Losses to . . .
New data from the Federal Trade Commission show that in 2024, consumers reported losing $470 million to scams that started with text messages
- Phishing Scams - Federal Trade Commission
Phishing Scams and How to Spot Them Phishing is a type of online scam that targets consumers by sending them an e-mail that appears to be from a well-known source – an internet service provider, a bank, or a mortgage company, for example It asks the consumer to provide personal identifying information
- False alarm, real scam: how scammers are stealing older adults’ life . . .
Reports to the FTC show a growing wave of scams aimed squarely at retirees’ life savings These scammers pretend to be from known and trusted government agencies and businesses
- New FTC Data Show a Big Jump in Reported Losses to Fraud to $12. 5 . . .
Losses to government imposter scams in particular increased $171 million from 2023 to a total of $789 million in 2024 Online shopping issues were the second most commonly reported in the fraud category
- Top text scams of 2024 - Federal Trade Commission
It’s hard not to glance at your phone when you hear the ding of an incoming text Scammers bet on it And reports to the FTC’s Consumer Sentinel Network suggest their odds of a big payout have improved: reported losses to text scams have skyrocketed even as the number of reports declined In 2024, people reported $470 million in losses to these scams, more than five times the 2020 number
- New FTC Data Show Skyrocketing Consumer Reports About Game-Like Online . . .
New Federal Trade Commission complaint data show a sharp spike in online job scams that require consumers to repeat sets of tasks, which tracks closely with an increase in reported losses to job sc
- Celebrating the Impersonation Rule that helps the FTC fight scams
These scams hurt the reputation of legitimate businesses and cause enormous financial harm to individuals Year after year, impersonation scams are one of the top frauds reported to the FTC In 2024, the FTC received nearly 850,000 reports of imposter scams The Impersonation Rule gives the FTC more tools to fight these scams
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