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How phone scammers tricked Americans out of tens of billions of dollars in 2022

Por: CNBC Business November 05, 2022

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Despite the rise of sophisticated crypto frauds and ransomware plots, phone scams continue to trick Americans out of tens of billions of dollars each year.It's very cheap to set up an automatic dialer and to plug a bunch of phone numbers into it, whether they're random or they are very intentional by geography or by demographic, and place millions of phone calls in a very short period of time, said Clayton LiaBraaten, senior executive... + full article



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