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<\/a>More Americans than ever rely on alarm systems, gates or doorbell cameras to help protect their families. But statistically, you are now more likely to be the victim of theft online than a physical break in at home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A new report from the FBI reveals that Americans lost more than $10 billion last year to online scams and digital fraud. Read more<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Scam news 2<\/p>\n\n\n\n PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) \u2014 Whether it was a sudden loss or a homegoing after a long goodbye, a regional funeral services company is issuing a warning to mourners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Virginia Beach-based Altmeyer Funeral Homes and Crematory, which operates funeral facilities in five states, is sounding the alarm after someone using the name of an Altmeyer employee contacted a couple of grieving families. Read more<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Scam news 3<\/p>\n\n\n\n Unscrupulous developers are taking advantage of the AI chatbot craze to trick people out of their hard-earned money, and it\u2019s working.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cybersecurity researchers from Sophos have analyzed Google\u2019s and Apple\u2019s mobile app stores and found multiple fake ChatGPT apps which, through dubious practices, forced users into subscribing to a service.\u00a0Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Scam news 1 Con Artists Targeting Parents\/Grandparents More Americans than ever rely on alarm systems, gates or doorbell cameras to help protect their families. But statistically, you are now more likely to be the victim of theft online than a physical break in at home. A new report from the FBI reveals that Americans lost […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awareness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2482,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478\/revisions\/2482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Grieving Families Targeted by Scammers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
<\/a>Fake ChatGPT Apps: Scam Alert<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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