Cyber-Forensics.net
Cyber Forensic Specialist
Phone scams come in many forms. Fraudsters can pose as technical support, charity organizers, health insurers, and family members in peril.
— Timothy Benson
SOFIA, BULGARIA, March 14, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ — Phone scams have been around for ages. And with time, they have grown too. A recent report by the Federal Trade Commission indicates receiving about 1.4 million scam complaints in the first four months of 2021. When contacted, nearly 2 out of every 5 cases, the telephone was how swindlers found their way in to cheat people.
Once the phone scammers got people on the line, they used false promises, threats, aggressive sales pitches to pry on personal information they could use to steal money or identity.
Timothy Benson, the chief analyst at Cyber-Forensics.net, a cyber forensics service for online scam victims, says, “it’s easy to understand why phone scammers love to dial-up. In the past 12 months, Americans lost $29.8 billion to phone scams-with average financial loss jumping up by 43%.”
Account recovery specialist Peter Thompson states further: “technology has made illegal work easy. With shady operators and auto-dialers, robocalls have exploded in numbers….
