An Echo Press Editorial: Stolen Data, Impostors, and Fake Services Harm Businesses

An Echo Press Editorial: Stolen data, impostors, and fake services harm businesses

When people think of scam, they often envision an elderly person with diminishing capabilities getting swindled out of money by believing get-rich-quick schemes or falling for the “grandparent scam” when they get a phone call from someone impersonating a grandchild asking for immediate financial help. But there are other scams out there that deserves attention too. The victims? Businesses. Since 2022, business scam reports to the Minnesota and N…

Stolen data, impostors and fake services harm businesses - Central Wisconsin News

Since 2022, business scams to Better Business Bureau (BBB) Scam Tracker totaled more than 3,600. These scams involved employee and vendor impersonations, theft of social media accounts, data breaches, and many more scam types.