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Consumers lost $2.1B to social media scams in 2025, FTC reports
Consumers lost $2.1B to social media scams in 2025, FTC reports The agency reports that losses from social media scams have increased eightfold and that social media scams resulted in higher losses than any other method…
Why it matters
A useful signal for anyone monitoring media. The social factor makes this more consequential than it first appears.