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• Fake email addresses - Malicious actors sometimes send from email addresses made to look like an official email address but in fact is missing a letter(s), misspelled, replaces a letter with a lookalike number (e.g. “O” and “0”), or originates from free email services that would not be used for official communications.
The Federal Trade Commission said there were no task scams in 2020, there were 5,000 in 2023 and then task scams quadrupled by the first half of 2024. The FTC says 'gamified' online job scams by ...
Email scams posing as the Internal Revenue Service were also used to steal sensitive data from U.S. taxpayers. [64] Social networking sites are a prime target of phishing, since the personal details in such sites can be used in identity theft ; [ 65 ] In 2007, 3.6 million adults lost US$3.2 billion due to phishing attacks. [ 66 ]
Veteran lied about having a disorder to scam the VA out of over $500,000, feds say. Kaitlyn Alanis. December 14, 2022 at 5:21 PM. Getty Images/iStock photo.
John Donald Cody is a convicted felon who perpetrated several fraudulent activities across the United States since the 1980s. He disappeared from his law practice in Arizona in 1984 after investigators began looking into his activities, suspecting the theft of client funds.
A 2023 study concluded that veteran callers who are linked to their VA healthcare records may have increased contact with VA mental healthcare after their calls with the VCL. [21] A 2024 study that examined the Caring Letters program of the VCL found mixed results. Suicide attempts were not reduced, but contact with VA mental healthcare increased.
Scammers are using AI-powered voice-cloning tools to prey on people. But experts say there's a simple way to protect you and your family.
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