FTC warns of record $3.5 billion losses to imposter scams in 2025
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) warned that Americans lost $3.5 billion to imposter scams in 2025, with reported losses nearly tripling since 2020. [...]
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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) warned that Americans lost $3.5 billion to imposter scams in 2025, with reported losses nearly tripling since 2020. [...]
Fake high-yield investment platforms are surging worldwide, promising "guaranteed" returns that mask classic Ponzi schemes.CTM360 explains how HYIP scams scale through social media, recycled templates, and referral abuse. [...]
Over the past few months, a large-scale cloud storage subscription scam campaign has been targeting users worldwide with repeated emails falsely warning recipients that their photos, files, and accounts are about to be blocked or deleted due to an alleged payment failure. [...]
Scammers are flooding LinkedIn posts with fake "reply" comments that appear to come from the platform, warning of bogus policy violations and urging users to click external links. Some even abuse LinkedIn's official lnkd.in shortener, making the phishing attempts harder to spot. [...]
The FBI warns that criminals are altering images shared on social media and using them as fake proof of life photos in virtual kidnapping ransom scams. [...]
The Swiss National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is warning iPhone owners about a phishing scam that claims to have found your lost or stolen iPhone but is actually trying to steal your Apple ID credentials. [...]
The FBI is warning about a new scam where cybercriminals exploit NFT airdrops on the Hedera Hashgraph network to steal crypto from cryptocurrency wallets. [...]
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) warns about a significant rise in gambling-like online job scams, known as "task scams," that draw people into earning cash through repetitive tasks, with the promises of earning more if they deposit their own money. [...]
The FBI warns that scammers are increasingly using artificial intelligence to improve the quality and effectiveness of their online fraud schemes, ranging from romance and investment scams to job hiring schemes. [...]
LastPass is warning about an ongoing campaign where scammers are writing reviews for its Chrome extension to promote a fake customer support phone number. However, this phone number is part of a much larger campaign to trick callers into giving scammers remote access to their computers, as discovered by BleepingComputer. [...]
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is warning of multiple schemes taking advantage of the upcoming U.S. general election to scam people out of their money or personal data. [...]
The FBI is warning of cybercriminals posing as law firms and lawyers that offer cryptocurrency recovery services to victims of investment scams and steal funds and personal information. [...]
Today, the FBI issued a warning about scammers using fake remote job ads to steal cryptocurrency from job seekers across the United States while posing as recruiters for legitimate companies. [...]
The Federal Trade Commission says Americans have lost at least $2.7 billion to social media scams since 2021, with the real number likely many times larger due to unreported incidents. [...]
The FBI issued a public service announcement warning of a significant increase in 'phantom hacker' scams targeting senior citizens across the United States. [...]
A new sextortion scam is making the rounds that pretends to be an email from the adult site YouPorn, warning that a sexually explicit video of you was uploaded to the site and suggesting you pay to have it taken down. [...]
A new sextortion scam is making the rounds that pretends to be an email from the adult site YouPorn, warning that a sexually explicit video of you was uploaded to the site and suggesting you pay to have it taken down. [...]
The FBI is warning of an increase in scammers pretending to be recovery companies that can help victims of cryptocurrency investment scams recover lost assets. [...]
FBI warns of a surge in tech support scams targeting the elderly across the United States and urging victims to dispatch cash concealed within magazines or similar items through shipping firms. [...]
Cryptocurrency wallet provider MetaMask is warning users of a new scam called 'Address Poisoning' used to trick users into sending funds to a scammer rather than an intended recipient. [...]