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Amazon impersonators stole $27 million in a year. Here’s how
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Con artists pretending to be Amazon employees scammed Americans out of $27 million from July 2020 through June 2021, the Federal Trade Commission said Wednesday.
These fraudsters were part of a «business impersonator» scam. Criminals pose as someone the consumer trusts — in this case, a purported Amazon representative — to dupe them into sending money.
Reports about Amazon impersonators increased fivefold over the year, according to the FTC.
About 96,000 people reported being targeted by an Amazon-related scam during that time — accounting for 35% of all consumer complaints about business impersonators, according to the agency, which called posing as Amazon a «runaway favorite» ploy for scammers. (Apple impersonators
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