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- Transcript Hello, this is Bill Walsh with AARP. AARP is holding a nationwide telephone discussion right now with experts from the FBI and AARP on how to recognize and avoid scams. To join the conversation, you simply need to stay on the line and we'll connect you. Our live telephone town hall will be recorded. To reach a live operator at AARP during regular business hours, call 888-687-2277 to reach AARP by mail, send correspondence to the programs department at 06:01 E Street Northwest, Washington, DC 20049. Please stay on the line and you'll be connected to this toll free live conversation. Please hold while we connect you to the AARP event. This AARP event is currently in progress. Please note that this call may be monitored, recorded, or rebroadcast. If you would like to listen in Spanish, press zero when you are connected to the live event. The money stolen via increasingly sophisticated tactics. What are the most important findings from that report? I think the most important things are the increase. Just as you mentioned, Bill, the increase in complaints. We had over 101,000 victims over the age of 60. Reported losses to IC three dot gov dot. The reported losses were over $3.4 billion. Where we saw the most significant increase, and this is the thing I would emphasize the most, was in cryptocurrency related schemes where people are being pitched something related to crypto, they're making payments related to crypto, or they're having their crypto stolen. We saw in total losses reported to IC three, $5.6 billion related to cryptocurrency. And for folks 60 and over, the losses were lower, but still very, very significant and a little bit over $1.1 billion. So just a crazy number of losses. And the other thing that we're seeing a significant increase in is tech support schemes. So everyone's been on the Internet, you're on your computer and you have that pop up, comes up on your screen. Unfortunately, a lot of people are clicking on that pop up because it teeth.
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