The report details how Americans lost money in 2020 to fake sweepstakes, and prize and lottery scams. The BBB says complaints actually went down last year, but the amount of money lost went up by ...

The number of investment scam victims that reported social media to be their initial method of contact has grown from 4,889 in 2020 to 26,160 in 2023. In 2020, just 29% of investment scams started ...

According to data from the Federal Trade Commission, between 2020 to 2023, consumer losses in bitcoin ATM scams skyrocketed nearly tenfold, from $12 million annually in 2020 to $114 million ...

Investment scams have conned almost 100,000 people into handing over £2.6bn to fraudsters since 2020, new research by the Pensions Management Institute (PMI) has found. Between January 2020 and ...

There was a noticeable drop in such cases in 2020 and 2021 due to the novel coronavirus pandemic. But one scam in which the amount pilfered in 2022 exceeded pre-COVID-19 levels involved falsely ...

Victims often get hit repeatedly, too. Between 2020 and 2021, while talking to victims of binary options trading scams, one truly shocking aspect I often heard was of people being contacted by ...