A principal at a charter high school in Florida recently resigned after sending $100,000 in school funds to an Elon Musk impersonator. And she’s just one of over three million online scam complaints over the last five years.Dr. Jan McGee was the principal at Burns Science and Technology Charter in Oak Hill, Fla.
But what happened to McGee has become all too common. Online scams led to $10.2 billion in losses for Americans in 2022, a major jump from $6.9 billion in 2021, according to the FBI’s Internet Crime Report. Both the number of complaints and financial losses about Internet scams have more than doubled over the past five years.
“Never give away any information that you’re being asked for,” Taylor said. “The IRS will never call you, no one ever needs to call you to find out what your Social Security number is. No one should have to call you to ask for your credit card number. Just don’t give any data or information away, especially if it’s unsolicited.”
“If you want to avoid remorse, go to the source,” Taylor says. “If you get an email claiming to be from your bank, instead of clicking on that email, or calling the phone number on that email message, call the bank directly because it’s really easy to fake a communication from a bank.”“Scammers have gotten pretty sophisticated,” Dr. Erika Rasure, a financial therapist at Beyond Finance, told MarketWatch.
Florida man cmonnnn
elonmusk Is that really you?
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I think real elonmusk should take responsibility for this / help the principal.
Imagine the education they're providing in Florida.
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