It's a Scam-demic!
In this type of scam, fraudsters lure victims into false or misleading relationships, often with the intention of stealing money or other types of fraud.
What is a romance scam?
This fraud ring travels the country stealing checks, debit cards, and IDs, then using a combination of those items to cash checks at victims' financial institutions.
What is the Felony Lane Gang?
This kind of fraud occurs when a victim is tricked into giving out their username and password to online banking, and a fraudster conducts transactions without the victim's knowledge.
What is online account takeover?
This type of scam occurs when you are browsing online and receive an urgent pop-up message telling you that there is a problem with your machine and directs you to a website or phoned number to pay for tech support services.
What is a tech support scam?
This kind of fraud occurs when a family member, caretaker, or power of attorney has legitimate access to a victim's account but uses the funds for their own financial gain.
What is elder financial exploitation.
This type of fraud occurs when a fraudster obtains personal and/or bank account information from their victim and uses the information for their own financial gain.
What is identity theft?
In this type of scam, the victim is offered a job that seems too good to be true and often receives payment before any work has been completed.
What is an employment scam?
This is one of the most common ways fraudsters obtain legitimate checks being sent through USPS to negotiate for their own financial gain.
What is mail theft?
These can be printed using 3D printers and other software, then used to impersonate victims for financial gain.
What are fake IDs?
In this type of scam, the victim receives a phone call from the Sherrif's department informing them that they missed jury duty and now owe a fine to avoid jail time. Victims are often directed to pay the fine by depositing cash into a Bitcoin ATM.
What is an imposter scam?
Skimmers, data breaches, spoofing or phishing are all methods to collect victim payment information to commit this type of fraud.
What is Debit Card Fraud?
These AI generated images, videos, and audio clips are used to manipulate victims into giving out personal information or sending money to fraudsters.
What are deepfakes?
This scam begins with the victim meeting someone online, or being contacted by an old acquaintance, then being offered an investment opportunity that will produce high returns.
What is pig butchering?
This type of fraud occurs when an employee receives an urgent message from a company leader requesting account changes, or wire transfers.
What is business email compromise?
This kind of fraud is the result of fraudsters obtaining pieces of personally identifiable information from multiple victims, creating a new persona, and obtaining transactional and credit accounts.
What is synthetic identity fraud?