Americans lost $12.5 billion to online scams last year, according to the FBI. That’s a record amount, up 22% from 2022. But there are ways you can protect yourself.
“You need to realize that you’re up against international organized crime rings,” Herb Weisbaum, contributing editor of Checkbook.org, told KIRO Newsradio. “They’ve reached so many databases in the past few years that you need to assume now that your personal information, your social security numbers, driver’s license numbers, credit and debit card numbers, birth dates, passwords, pins have all been stolen and are on sale on the dark web. So you need to get serious about protecting yourself.”
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