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 ...

DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) — The Better Business Bureau has witnessed an uptick in investment scam reports since 2020. According to ...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has reported a 10-fold rise in scams involving Bitcoin ATMs since 2020, citing scams driven by fraudsters exploiting anonymity and the speed of cryptocurrency ...

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 ...

And a recent Reddit post indicates that the new scam attempt is quite sophisticated ... "As you know, Ledger was targeted by a cyberattack that led to a data breach in July 2020," read the fake letter ...

An estimated 14 million people are exposed to employment scams yearly, with $2 billion in direct losses annually, reported in a 2020 study by the Better Business Bureau. Women accounted for 66.7% ...