The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has finalized amendments to its Telemarketing Sales Rule (TSR), making it easier to protect consumers who are tricked into paying scam tech support companies.
The FTC is amending its Telemarketing Sales Rule (TSR) to better protect consumers from tech support scams. The new rules cover not just incoming telemarketing calls but also outgoing calls from ...
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is warning Americans about “game-like online job scams” that get people to perform tasks with the promise of a continuous income stream — only to be duped ...
There has been a recent spike in these online job scams, called “task scams,” over the past four years, the FTC said Thursday. The scams are often “gamified,” meaning they make the ...
Reported losses to online task scams eclipsed $220 million in the first half of 2024, according to the Federal Trade ...
Scams involving offers of game-like jobs, where users perform online tasks for money, have quadrupled in the first half of 2024, according to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Reports of these ...