{"id":86986,"date":"2024-04-01T19:52:12","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T19:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/01\/the-ftc-is-trying-to-help-victims-of-impersonation-scams-get-their-money-back\/"},"modified":"2024-04-01T19:52:12","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T19:52:12","slug":"the-ftc-is-trying-to-help-victims-of-impersonation-scams-get-their-money-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/01\/the-ftc-is-trying-to-help-victims-of-impersonation-scams-get-their-money-back\/","title":{"rendered":"The FTC is trying to help victims of impersonation scams get their money back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<figure>\n      <figcaption>Illustration by Laura Normand \/ The Verge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p id=\"vSXre3\">The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has a new way to combat the impersonation scams that it says cost people <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ftc.gov\/news-events\/data-visualizations\/data-spotlight\/2024\/04\/impersonation-scams-not-what-they-used-be#ftn4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$1.1 billion last year alone<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ftc.gov\/news-events\/news\/press-releases\/2024\/04\/ftc-announces-impersonation-rule-goes-effect-today\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Effective today<\/a>, the agency\u2019s rule (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ftc.gov\/system\/files\/ftc_gov\/pdf\/r207000_govt_biz_impersonation_rule.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PDF<\/a>) \u201cprohibits the impersonation of government, businesses, and their officials or agents in interstate commerce.\u201d The rule also lets the FTC directly file federal court complaints to force scammers to return money stolen by business or government impersonation.<\/p>\n<p id=\"91O5qj\">Impersonation scams are wide-ranging \u2014 creators are on the lookout for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/how-a-social-engineering-hack-turned-these-facebook-pages-into-a-dumping-ground-for-spam-143010079.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fake podcast invites<\/a> that turn into letting scammers take over their Facebook pages via a hidden \u201cdatasets\u201d URL, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/1\/19\/24043482\/the-verge-crypto-calendly-scam-phishing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Verge <\/em>reporters have been impersonated<\/a> by criminals trying to steal cryptocurrency via fake Calendly meeting links. <\/p>\n<p id=\"rz6ftn\">L&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/4\/1\/24118030\/ftc-impersonation-rule-businesses-government-artificial-intelligence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Continue reading&hellip;<\/a>\n  <\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/4\/1\/24118030\/ftc-impersonation-rule-businesses-government-artificial-intelligence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Illustration by Laura Normand \/ The Verge The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has a new way to combat the impersonation scams that it says cost people $1.1 billion last year alone. Effective today, the agency\u2019s rule (PDF) \u201cprohibits the impersonation of government, businesses, and their officials or agents in interstate commerce.\u201d The rule also lets [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-86986","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}