The online loan manager Lending Tree says Pennsylvanians lost $158 million to scammers in 2023…and that’s only covering the first nine months of the year.
The complete year’s losses are not yet compiled. By far, the most common scam techniques are remote contact through emails, phone calls, texts, and social media, with social media the fifth most-used method but the most profitable for crooks. Pennsylvania ranked fourteenth in the nation for the highest increase in scam losses, at 21.7 percent.
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