The Federal Commerce Fee (FTC) has a brand new technique to fight the impersonation scams that it says price folks $1.1 billion last year alone. Effective today, the company’s rule (PDF) “prohibits the impersonation of presidency, companies, and their officers or brokers in interstate commerce.” The rule additionally lets the FTC instantly file federal courtroom complaints to drive scammers to return cash stolen by enterprise or authorities impersonation.
Impersonation scams are wide-ranging — creators are looking out for fake podcast invites that flip into letting scammers take over their Fb pages by way of a hidden “datasets” URL, whereas Verge reporters have been impersonated by criminals attempting to steal cryptocurrency by way of faux Calendly assembly hyperlinks.
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