Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The billions of dollars lost to fraud just keep piling up. Crooks and con artists stole a record $15.9 billion in 2025 in a ...

Americans reported losing $3.5 billion to imposter scams last year, according to Federal Trade Commission (FTC) data released today, June 15, 2026. Imposter scams are schemes where fraudsters pose as ...

The amount lost to imposter scams is part of $15.9 billion in total fraud losses reported to the Federal Trade Commission in 2025 ...

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) warned that Americans lost $3.5 billion to imposter scams in 2025, with reported losses nearly tripling since 2020. Imposter scams were also the most reported ...

Government imposter scams were the most-reported scam in 2025 for the ninth year in a row, according to the Federal Trade Commission. You can view News 8 headlines in the video player above. Reports ...

Americans lost $2.1 billion to social media scams in 2025, according to a new report from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The agency reports that losses from social media scams have increased ...

(NEXSTAR) – Does it seems like you received more robocalls in 2025 than the year before? According to data released Thursday by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), complaints about the obnoxious phone ...

The Federal Trade Commission reported that Americans lost $3.5 billion to imposter scams in 2025, a record that reflects losses nearly tripling since 2020. For the fifth year running, no fraud ...

The billions of dollars lost to fraud just keep piling up. Crooks and con artists stole a record $15.9 billion in 2025 in a variety of scams — up from $12.5 billion in 2024, according to the latest ...

The most frequent form of fraud? Someone pretending to be someone else — the FBI, the FTC, the IRS, your bank, your grandson, the new love of your life. The Federal Trade Commission says the spike in ...