{"id":13745,"date":"2026-06-20T02:03:39","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T02:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/20\/imposter-scams-cost-americans-3-5-billion-in-2025-and-its-getting-worse\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T02:03:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T02:03:39","slug":"imposter-scams-cost-americans-3-5-billion-in-2025-and-its-getting-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/20\/imposter-scams-cost-americans-3-5-billion-in-2025-and-its-getting-worse\/","title":{"rendered":"Imposter scams cost Americans $3.5 billion in 2025 \u2013 and it\u2019s getting worse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Imposter scams cost Americans $3.5 billion in 2025 \u2013 and it\u2019s getting worse<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>Someone is pretending to be your bank, your government, or your local planning office. And according to the FTC, they&#8217;re making billions doing it.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in my article on the Fortra blog.<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Graham Cluley<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fortra.com\/blog\/imposter-scams-cost-americans-35-billion-2025-and-its-getting-worse\">Go to grahamcluley<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imposter scams cost Americans $3.5 billion in 2025 \u2013 and it\u2019s getting worse Someone is pretending to be your bank, your government, or your local planning office. And according to the FTC, they&#8217;re making billions doing it. Read more in my article on the Fortra blog. Graham Cluley Go to grahamcluley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573,54,155,313,486],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-13745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fbi","category-grahamcluley","category-guest-blog","category-scam","category-security-threats","tag-grahamcluley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13745"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}