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Beware of messages from “Geek Squad.”
The Federal Trade Commission says Best Buy and its Geek Squad topped the list of most frequently impersonated companies by scammers in 2023. With 52,000 reports of fraud, consumers lost $15 million to those scams.
But scammers made the most money from impersonating Microsoft, according to the report, which found 7,000 reports of fraud and $60 million total losses.
Federal Trade Commission
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