Scammers are increasingly targeting netizens with fake job offers – chief among them ‘task scams’ that use gamification techniques to trick victims into depositing crypto in exchange for larger returns, the Federal Trade Commission warns.
Reported losses to job scams more than tripled from 2020 to 2023 and, in just the first half of 2024, topped $220 million, according to the latest data spotlight from the FTC.
Driving the trend are gamified job scams, often called task scams, reported by 20,0
