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Fraud can happen to anyone. Outsmart the criminals.
Phone AI Voice
Criminals can copy a loved one's voice from three seconds of audio. A ten-minute family conversation this weekend makes the whole trick worthless.
Read the full alert →Pause. Verify. Call back.
Situation report · FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center, 2025
$7.75B
reported stolen from Americans 60-plus in 2025
That is the criminals’ annual revenue — and every report filed at IC3.gov shrinks it by feeding the FBI’s case map.
+59%
one-year rise in reported losses
The wave is accelerating — which is exactly why a new alert posts here every Tuesday.
$38,501
average reported loss
The three-second pause — hang up, look up the real number, call back — costs nothing.
“Confirm your order” texts
Fake Amazon and UPS texts ask you to “dispute” a purchase you never made.
Counter-moveNever tap the link — check the account from your own bookmark or app.
Gold and cash courier pickups
A “federal agent” says your savings are at risk and sends a courier to collect.
Counter-moveNo government agency sends couriers. Hang up and call 1-833-FRAUD-11.
Medicare “new card” calls
A caller needs your Medicare number to mail you an updated card.
Counter-moveReal cards arrive by mail without a phone call. When in doubt, call 1-800-MEDICARE.
You've probably been looking forward to summer—a trip on the calendar, time with grandchildren, maybe a road trip you've been putting off. Scammers have been looking forward to it too.
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Investment fraud is now the single costliest crime against Americans 60-plus. Here is exactly how the two biggest schemes work — and the five-minute drill that shuts both down.
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The recovery playbook most fraud coverage never prints — including the second scam that's waiting for you the moment you go looking for help.
Read the briefing →One blunt rule beats a hundred scam alerts: real agencies send letters — and not one of them accepts gift cards.
Read the briefing →Organized criminal networks stole $7.7 billion from Americans 60-plus last year. Here's where the money went — and the three-second habit that breaks their business model.
Read the briefing →“Got the “grandson in jail” call Tuesday — lawyer on the line and everything. I paused, hung up, and called my daughter on her real number. He was at baseball practice. Nothing lost.”
“A “Medicare rep” wanted my number to mail the new card. I remembered: real cards come by mail without a call. Checked, reported it at ReportFraud.ftc.gov, done in a minute.”
“We set the family password at Sunday dinner, just like the alert said. The grandkids picked the name of our old beagle. Ten minutes, and the clone scam is worthless on us.”
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Every Tuesday’s alert, the morning it posts — so you hear about the play before the call comes.
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