Americans lost over $10,000,000,000 to online scammers last year

[thewayne]

New report from the FBI says we set another record, up from $6.9B in '21, with crypto investment fraud nearly tripled.

The FBI operates the Internet Crime Complaint Center where people can report such activity, they logged 800,000 calls last year, or 2,000 A DAY. Phishing lead in complains at 300,000.

Wall Street Journal article, may be paywalled:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/americans-lost-a-record-10-3-billion-to-online-scammers-last-year-fbi-says-274d6139

https://news.slashdot.org/story/23/03/15/1435247/americans-lost-a-record-103-billion-to-online-scammers-last-year-fbi-says

Comments

[disneydream06]

HOLY CRAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hugs, jon

[thewayne]

Yeah, just a measurable part of the GDP.

[disneydream06]

ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[silveradept]

Most of it, I suspect, is robocallers phishing for people to respond to them. When it isn't computers scamming other computers, or computers scamming humans who want to get rich quick through unregulated markets.