Employment scam reports submitted to BBB Scam Tracker SM were up 23.1 percent from 2021 to 2022. The median dollar loss of $1,500 for employment scams is significantly higher than the overall ...

Losses from imposter scams were also on the rise in 2022, with more than $2.6 billion reported lost to such schemes last year, which was an increase from $2.2 billion in 2021.

That's part of the reason why text message scams land in the No. 2 spot on Brian's list. Call-blocking app Robokiller reports that Americans received 47 billion spam texts in November 2022.

The FBI reports America is the most scammed country in the world. In Tennessee, there were more than 7,000 victims of online scams in 2022, losing a total of $113 million.

Data from Comparitech found an estimated 73,000 people in the U.S. fell victim to a romance scam in 2022, a 10% decline from the year before.

Scams targeting older Americans, many using AI, caused over $1 billion in losses in 2022 Sen Elizabeth Warren says billions in financial losses caused by scams is 'almost surely an underestimate' ...

The second-riskiest scam of 2022 were employment scams, which made a resurgence with an increase in dollar loss from 2021, Hickle said. In 2021, the BBB reported the median dollar loss from ...

Australians lost a staggering AU$3.1 billion to scams in 2022, according to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), an increase of a huge 80% compared to losses in 2021.

Crypto scam revenue in 2022, which includes investment scams, NFT scams and romance scams, among others, amounted to $5.9 billion in the year — down 46% from 2021.

News 8 On Your Side consumer investigator Brian Roche is counting down the top scams of 2022. In the No. 1 spot is a scam that's growing rapidly as we approach the end of the year, and victims can ...