April 29, 2025

FBI's IC3 2024 Statistics - Not Good!

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The FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center 2024 annual report is out. The statistics are not good and going in the wrong direction. Losses increased by 33% in the United States and 43% increase in losses with the 60+ year old population.
Tune in while Joyce reviews the report as it relates to the 60+ year old population in the United States and Arizona.

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Welcome back everyone, I'm Joyce Petrowski, founder and board president

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of Rose Resources Outreach to safeguard the elderly. You can

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up for our emailed and mailed newsletters down at the

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bottom of the homepage. Last week, we talked about a

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public service announcement from the FBI that scammers were impersonating

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the Internet Crime Complaint Center, which is a division of

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the FBI, And today I want to talk about the

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twenty twenty four Internet Crime Complaint Center's report, annual report

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that they do every year. The twenty twenty four came

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out late last week and it's got a lot of

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information about the scams and the victims that reported during

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twenty twenty four.

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Now, if you remember.

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What we talked about last week, the Internet Crime Complaint Center,

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you can find these reports. I So that's I as

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an Indigo c as in KAT the number three dot gov.

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This is where you can also report crimes scams. Whether

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you've lost money or not, you can still report it.

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And this department of the FBI is a data collection

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and they collect all this information and then they disseminated

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out to the appropriate law enforcement wherever the crime has

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taken place. So, getting back to the twenty twenty four

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I see three annual report. I'm going to put up

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on a script on the screen here one called complaints

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filed by individual sixty plus And if you can see that,

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so and this is just in the year of twenty

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twenty four, and just for the sixty year old and

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older age population, and this is all throughout the United States,

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there was over one hundred and forty seven thousand complaints.

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And of those complaints or of those complaints, they lost

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a combined total of four point eight eight five billion

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in losses.

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That's b as in boy billion.

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Now in twenty twenty three, and you can see from

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the graph below. The graph below goes all the way

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from twenty eighteen through twenty twenty four. So in twenty

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twenty three the complaints were just over one hundred and

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one thousand, and they went all the way up to

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just over one hundred and forty seven thousand in one year.

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That's a forty six percent increase. And the losses in

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twenty and twenty three they were around three point four billion,

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and they're up to four point eighty eight five billion,

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just shy of five billion dollars. That's a forty three

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percent increase in losses from twenty twenty three to twenty

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twenty four. Now, of those one hundred and forty seven

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thousand complaints, there were seventy five hundred that lost more

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than one hundred thousand dollars in the scam that they

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were reporting, And if we want to average all of

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this out, the average loss was eighty three thousand dollars.

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So this is this is just crazy. This is going

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way up, and we need to really take a hard

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look at at prevention tools and at ROSE, we firmly

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believe that the best prevention is education.

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Its awareness.

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It's education, and then it's knowing how to protect yourself

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and then knowing that it's okay to talk about scams.

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Whether you've received something and you've fallen victim or you

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haven't fallen victim, it's good to talk about it because

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it makes your family and friends more aware of what's

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going on. But it also helps everyone involved keep scam

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prevention top of mind. So if we break that down,

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we're going to go to another chart called three year comparison.

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The sixty year old population complaint losses. So this is

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where they compare from twenty twenty two, twenty three, and

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twenty four based on the type of crime that was committed.

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And I've highlighted some numbers here. So the investment scam

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was by far the one in this age population where

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the most money was lost. In twenty four it was

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one point eight billion dollars and that is almost doubled

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from twenty twenty two. It was nine hundred and ninety

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thousand in twenty and twenty two. Now, those are investment schemes.

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So we've talked about pig butchering before, where you know,

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the scammer establishes the relationship but then gets you to

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invest in crypto and you think you're getting all you're

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making all of this money, and you're not because when

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you want to go take it out, it's not there

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and the scammer's not there. So there's a lot of

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lot of dollars in this age population loss to investment scams.

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And you can see the other dollar amounts for all

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the other ones. There's you know, confidence in romance fraud

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was about three hundred and ninety thousand. Government impersonation was

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just over two hundred two hundred I should say two

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hundred billion. The Romance and confidence fraud was just under

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three hundred and ninety billion. What are some other ones

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on here? Personal data breach two hundred and fifty four billion.

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But if you look down towards the bottom, there's tech support.

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And in twenty and twenty two those losses were five

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hundred and just shy of five hundred and eighty six billion,

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and all the way up to twenty and twenty four

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it reaches nine hundred and eighty two billion dollars.

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So between the investment and.

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The tech support, we're looking at two what is this?

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I'm doing the math in my head, so two point

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eight just over two point eight billion dollars?

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Or was it am I adding?

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Yeah, over two point eight billion dollars just in those

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two scams alone. And so we've talked about the tech

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support before as well. You know, when that first came out,

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everybody realized that it was the pop up on your

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device that talked about you have a virus.

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And call us and we can help you get this

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off your device.

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Well, you know, scammers, as they do, they evolve and

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they go to then impersonating you might get an email

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from a scammer, but they're impersonating some larger tech support

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company like Microsoft or McAfee or the Geek Squad or

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something like that, and they might be talking to you

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about a subscription, or they could be saying that they've

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noticed some unusual activity or that you could have some malware,

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you know, whatever.

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They've upped their game, you know.

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But then a few years back, the FBI had put

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out a public service announcement because they were seeing such

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an uptick in a different a different tech support which

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is where they would get a hold of you again,

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impersonating you know, McAfee, Microsoft, one of these larger, more

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well known tech support companies, and say that you were

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owed a refund on a subscription. And if you had

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happened to have a subscription with whoever they were impersonating it,

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it made it all the more believable.

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And they would get you to.

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Allow them access to your computer and they would go

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in and put it, you know, put it in your account.

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I'm saying that in.

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Quotes because they would show that it's going into your account.

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But then lo and behold, they put too many zeros

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in there. To the left of the decimal point, and

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then it went into this whole thing about how they're

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going to get in so much trouble they might get fired,

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and so you had to go get the money and

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send it back, and then a couple days later you

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found out that money was never in your account to

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begin with, and so you were out all of that money.

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So the tech support's been going on for a long time.

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It's been one in the top three with this age population,

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and it still is. The romance scams used to be

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in the top three years ago, but they've come down some.

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They're still out there, but they've come down. But this

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investment one, if you can see down all the way

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down at the bottom of the table, the cryptocurrency, there

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was two point eight billion dollars loss to cryptocurrency. That

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was the that was the medium that the scammer used

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in order to get your money. So and it was

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you know, whether it was investing in what you thought

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was legitimate cryptocurrency or some other scam where they would

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have you actually go to a cryptocurrency ATM machine and

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put your money in there. So now I want to

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take those numbers and I want to break them down

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to the state of Arizona because that's where Rose operates

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right now, and we want to see what this looks like.

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So the next chart I want to show is the

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overall state statistics, the counts by state from complaints filed

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by individuals. So once again Arizona is in the top ten.

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This is not a statistic that we want to be

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in the top ten and we want to be down

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and actually it shows there's fifty seven of them here,

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so we want to be number fifty seven. Anyways, we're

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number four again. This you guys remember from twenty twenty

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three there were just over fifty five hundred complaints filed. Again,

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same age population sixty year old and older. Well, in

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twenty four there was just under sixty seven hundred complaints filed.

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California was number one, Florida's number two, Texas is number three.

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I will say we usually do run behind those three.

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They usually are the top three. But you know, Pennsylvania

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and New York they're down there. I would have expected

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New York to be a little bit higher. But good

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for them that they're, you know, number six, but Arizona

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number seven. No, we are number seven, number four. We

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need to really really work hard and we need to

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bring this victim count down a lot, and again, scam

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prevention through education is really the best way that Rose

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believes in order to start making a dent in these numbers.

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So let's see how much money those sixty six hundred

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and eighty three victims loss. The overall state statistics with

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the losses by state is the next chart I'm going

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to show. And that one we are number six. You

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can see California's number one, Texas, Florida, and they're New York.

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So New York was it was interesting. New York was

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number six in number of victims, but they are number

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four in number of losses, where Arizona was number four

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in number of victims, and we are Arizona is number

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six in amount of losses one hundred and ninety million dollars. Now,

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if you remember when we've talked about this before, in

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twenty twenty, the sixty plus residents of Arizona that reported

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they were a victim, it was twenty seven million dollars,

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and then it went to fifty four million in twenty

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twenty one, then eighty three million in twenty twenty two,

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one hundred and twenty eight million in twenty and twenty three.

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Now we're up to one hundred and ninety million dollars

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that was reported lost.

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This is.

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People's life savings, and you know, whatever the scam is,

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it's devastating. The scammers exploit their victims emotions and get

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them to make rash decisions based on emotions, because we

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know that if we were making a decision based on

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rational thought, there's a very good chance we would not

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have done what the scammer had asked us to do.

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So scammers are getting much much better, and they're going

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to continue to get better because you can see the

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amount of money that they are making. Just to give

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you an idea for all age populations that reported they

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were a victim in twenty twenty four, I believe the

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total losses were sixteen point six billion dollars, up from

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about twelve and a half billion.

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I believe it wasn't twenty twenty three.

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So.

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Lots of money out there. These scammers are making billions

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and billions, if not close to trillions of dollars. They

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are going to just continue to evolve their techniques, perfect

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their techniques. They're changing and adapting to all this new

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technology that's coming out right. We've talked about artificial intelligence.

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They have figured out how to use it to their

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advantage with the using the generative text like chat GBT

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to create their emails, to create their letters.

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And yes, they.

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Will still send stuff in the mail, not as much

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as they used to, but they still do. And so

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the bad grammar part of it, you really can't look

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for that anymore.

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But they also use the deep fakes with the videos.

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Where in the romance scam they wouldn't come on camera

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because they knew what they look like wasn't like the

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pictures that they'd been sending you, so they wouldn't come

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on camera. Well, now they can make that. They can

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make it seem like you are actually talking to the

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person in the pictures when it's really them behind it.

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And then THEDEO of the audio they need and I'm

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not exactly sure how much, but I think it's around

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fifteen twenty second audio recording of someone's voice and they

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can get all the different fluctuations in the voice to

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then turn around and make that voice say what they

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wanted to say. So you get a call. And with

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the Grandparents scam, remember when they first started that, they

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didn't even know if you had grandchildren. Well, then they

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were able to figure that out through a variety of

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different tools online and then what your grandkid's names were.

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But then a lot of people would say, well, I

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knew it wasn't my grandchild because it wasn't their voice. Well,

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now with this AI voice recording, the voice sounds like

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your grandchild, which makes it even more difficult to decipher

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what's going on and get you into that emotional state

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of fear for your grandchild that you want to do

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whatever's possible as quick as possible to help them out

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without stopping to think. So you can see from all

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this money that they're making that they aren't going to stop.

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They're going to keep perfecting. So this scam prevention through

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education program that Rose has is of the utmost importance.

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And it's not just having it won. It needs to

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be at a minimum once a year. You know, some

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places might want to have it twice a year, but

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a minimum of once a year. And then we have

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a wide variety of ways that you can keep up

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to date on things through social media, through newsletters, through

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this radio show, lots of different ways. So one of

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the things they put in this annual report is the

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cryptocurrency fraud for twenty twenty four and I wanted to

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share this this this page with you guys, and this

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is for these statistics are for all of the age populations.

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You can see the different age ranges. In the middle

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there under complaints referencing cryptocurrency. And this is going to

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be when somebody files a complaint and they said they

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have either invested in cryptocurrency or they paid in cryptocurrency.

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The crime involves cryptocurrency somehow.

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So at the.

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Top there was just under one hundred and fifty thousand

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complaints totally nine point three billion in losses, so that

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was a sixty six percent increase in losses from twenty

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twenty three. And the largest age group for these losses

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the sixty plus population. If you look at that table,

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you know the the under twenty was seven million. Then

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we get up to the twenty to twenty nine is

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three hundred and seventy million. Thirty to thirty nine, it

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gets a little higher at just over a billion forty

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to age forty to forty nine is about half of

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what the sixty plus population, and then age fifty to

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fifty nine is a little lower than the forties, just

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over or just under one point two million, but the

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sixty plus population two point eight million dollars in cryptocurrency.

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And you can look at the graph below, so the

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red bars vertical bars are the amount of losses and

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you can see the look at how little those how

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small those red bars are in twenty seventeen, which is

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the first one, eighteen nineteen twenty, then it starts to

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creep up in twenty one. It pretty much doubles in

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twenty two, goes up a little bit more in twenty three,

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and now look at this big jump in twenty twenty

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four and then the it looks green on the screen,

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but the line and that's the amount of the number

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of complaints. So again it's shot up from twenty seventeen

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to eighteen, and then it kind of mad steady from

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eighteen to nineteen to twenty to twenty one, and then

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it starts going up again in twenty two and twenty

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three it goes up a little bit, but then it

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shoots way up for twenty twenty four. So this is

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a cryptocurrency is has really come into play as a

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way that scammers want their money. And my understanding is

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with cryptocurrency is that when it first came out, it

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was pretty much anonymous, hence why the scammers liked it

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won they could get their money quickly, But then they

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also it was anonymous, so it made made it really

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difficult for law enforcement to try to find them. But

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my understanding is over these recent years is that with

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new technology available that law enforcement is able to that

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these crypto wallets are not as anonymous as they were,

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and law enforcement has better tools available to them to

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be able to find the criminals behind these crypto wallets.

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So just big thing to remember with cryptocurrency. If anybody

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asks you to pay in cryptocurrency, the answer is no.

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The only way you should be putting money through cryptocurrency

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is if you are in fact investing in cryptocurrency. But

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then you want to make sure that you have researched

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the cryptocurrency, you are comfortable with it, you know the

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risk involved, and that if you are going through a broker,

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you are using a reputable broker, and you are using

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a reputable cryptocurrency fund. I know they have a lot

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of different types. I don't even want to begin. I

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don't even know Bitcoin is one that I know it

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comes to mind, but I know there's a ton of

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other ones. So you really have to do your research,

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and you really have to be working with reputable cryptocurrency

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funds and reputable people in the cryptocurrency world.

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But if somebody is asking for.

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Payment for something in cryptocurrency, no, the hair on the

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back of your neck should be going up.

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That's a scam.

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So another table that the IC three put in was

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Cryptocurrency in Fraud trends to kind of see the different

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types of scams that are prevalent with cryptocurrency, and one

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is cryptocurrency currency investment. We talked about a couple slides

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ago about how the investment fraud was as far as

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the number of law the amount of losses was the

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number one with the sixty plus population. Well, if you

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look at this cryptocurrency investment schemes, the over sixty was

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one point six billion dollars out of that two point

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eight that we talked about on the on the page before.

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So in the end, the FBI has actually put out

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a warning because they've seen spikes in these cryptocurrency investment schemes.

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One of them, which is the pig butchering one that

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we talked about just a little bit ago. Another one

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is the cryptocurrency ATMs in Kiosks. Now we've talked about

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that as well, where the scammer wants you to, you know,

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send the money via these cryptocurrency ATMs. There was the

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sixty plus population there were They lost over one hundred

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and seven million dollars with that, and again there's a

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warning down there, The FBI warns of fraudulent schemes leveraging

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cryptocurrency ATMs or QR codes to facilitate payments. So breaking

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that down even farther, the crime types most associated with

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cryptoatm use tech support. Now, that was the second most

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losses in the sixty plus population a couple of slides ago,

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So there was over one hundred and seven million dollars

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in tech support that was paid through a cryptocurrency ATM.

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Now they also have extortion and an investment and government

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and personation in there as well, but by far tech

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support is the largest. And then down at the bottom

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they have the extortion and sextortion by age group and

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basically that's malicious actors manipulating photos and videos to create

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explicit content content and sexual or let me start that over.

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Malicious actors manipulating photos and videos to create explicit content

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and sextortion schemes there is for the over sixty it

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was the out of all the age groups lost the

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most money with that's over seven hundred and twenty four

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million dollars. So wide variety of crimes and where cryptocurrency

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was the median in order to pay pay money over.

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So that's that's what I'm Those are the IC three

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schedules that I wanted to go over with you today.

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If you want to look at the whole report, it's

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all one report this year. There is no separate elder

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fraud report. It's at I isn't as an igloo c

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as in KAT the number three dot gov and just

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click on two thousand reports in twenty twenty four and

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it'll take you right to the report. But there isn't

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a public service announcement that the FBI had put out

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on August second of twenty twenty four. I know it's

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like nine months old almost yeah, it's about nine months old,

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