(Washington, DC) — Over 100-thousand Americans over 60 are computer money scam victims. That’s according to a new FBI report, showing the average person lost nearly 34-thousand-dollars, totaling more than three-point-four billion-dollars overall in 2023. That’s up 11-percent over the previous year.
Tech support scams were the most widely reported kind of elder fraud. Personal data breaches, confidence and romance scams, non-payment or non-delivery scams, and investment scams rounded out the top five most common types of elder fraud reported. And, scammers are coming for people’s cryptocurrency. More than 12,000 victims aged 60 and over indicated that cryptocurrency was “a medium or tool used to facilitate” the scam or fraud that targeted them.