Scammers impersonating FTC agents are averaging $7,000 per theft—more than double what they were stealing 5 years ago

Scammers pretending to work for the Federal Trade Commission isn’t new, but they’ve perhaps never been quite so successful.

So far in 2024, faux FTC agents have been stealing about $7,000 per scam, a marked increase from the $3,000 figure the agency reported in 2019.

“The FTC will never tell consumers to move their money to ‘protect’ it. The FTC will never send consumers to a…