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In 2025 Scammers Have Stolen $835M from Americans Using Fake Customer Service Numbers


They call it "the business-impersonator scam". And it's fooled 396,227 Americans in just the first nine months of 2025 — 18% more than the 335,785 in the same nine months of 2024. That's according to a Bloomberg reporter (who also fell for it in late November), citing the official statistics ...

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