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In 2022, the FTC received 197,573 complaints about scammers pretending to be government agents, and last year that number rose to 228,282. Scams, generally speaking, remain a growing problem.
The Federal Trade Commission said there were no task scams in 2020, there were 5,000 in 2023 and then task scams quadrupled by the first half of 2024. The FTC says 'gamified' online job scams by ...
In 1997 Håkan Lans sued Dell for infringement of his color-graphics display patent, U.S. patent no. 4,303,986. [1] Dell won the case because Lans did not have any ownership interest in the patent, having assigned it to a corporation that he owned. In 2005, Dell began the construction of a facility in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. [2]
Meanwhile, AI scams have become part of the FTC’s "bread and butter fraud work," Khan noted, so reach out to the agency when you see or experience something amiss.
In May 2018, [1] following an FTC investigation, World Patent Marketing was shut down and Cooper was banned from the patent industry and ordered to pay nearly $1 million in FTC fines. [ 2 ] WPM was described as part of a "long history of invention scammers", although "few exceeded Scott J. Cooper at wringing so much money out of individual victims.
Microsoft Corp., the plaintiffs unsuccessfully argued that Microsoft had engaged in a hub-and-spoke conspiracy with three original equipment manufacturers (OEMs)—Compaq, Dell, and PB Electronics—to restrain trade, in violation of § 1 of the Sherman Act, in the sale of operating systems, word processing, and spreadsheet software, and also a ...
People who reported a romance scam claimed total losses of $1.3 billion in 2022, according to another FTC alert. The median reported loss then for an online romance scam was $4,400.
There are a number of phone apps which try to identify, screen, send to voicemail or otherwise deter telemarketing calls with most major carriers providing some level of free scam call screening."Call Blocking". Federal Trade Commission Additionally both iOS [30] and Android [31] operating systems offer scam screening options.