Last year, scammers stole more than $16.6 billion from more than 850,000 Americans who filed complaints with the FBI. These were everyday folks who received emails that looked identical to messages ...
Yarilet Perez is an experienced multimedia journalist and fact-checker with a Master of Science in Journalism. She has worked in multiple cities covering breaking news, politics, education, and more.
American consumers lost a total of $2.1 billion to scams on social media last year, according to the Federal Trade Commission’s latest Consumer Sentinel Network report. That’s eight times more than ...