Oct 19, 2022, 11:35amUpdated 10m ago
By: News 12 Staff
According to the FBI, New York is successful the apical 5 states affected by net scams successful 2022.
In the report released online, New York has had 29,065 victims with the full magnitude of $559,965,598 wealth lost. California had the apical spot with a small much than 67,000 victims and implicit $1 cardinal lost. Texas follows aft California, past New York, Florida and Pennsylvania.
The FBI besides states the wealth mislaid to online scams and victims affected doubled since COVID-19 with $6.9 cardinal mislaid successful 2021, compared to $3.5 cardinal successful 2019.
The study besides lists ways to debar online scams specified arsenic ne'er giving wealth to anyone you person met successful person, refusing to springiness retired idiosyncratic accusation and more
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