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Re:Americans lose $50M to phone scams in the last year by B_Throwaway on Sunday November 03, 2019 @03:05PM (#21436219)
Alternative headline:

Americans lose on average 16 cents to phone scams in the last year.

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Re:Americans lose $50M to phone scams in the last year by stubish on Sunday November 03, 2019 @09:00PM (#21438355)
Yes, you can play with statistics that way if you want to sweep the problem under the carpet. If only the victims could get their potentially life changing losses amortized over the country's population somehow.
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Re:Americans lose $50M to phone scams in the last year by pryffwyd on Monday November 04, 2019 @10:05AM (#21442258)
Chicago citizens were on average murdered .0002 times in the last year
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Re:Americans lose $50M to phone scams in the last year by incompatible on Monday November 04, 2019 @04:13AM (#21440003)
It seems remarkably low, especially since it's supposedly the victims reporting to the FBI "some sort of phishing scam", (just phone scams, or including email etc?) "A whopping 26,379 people."

Australians are expected to report over $532 million (AUD) in losses in 2019: https://www.scamwatch.gov.au/news/record-losses-expected-as-...

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