Top FBI official warns Americans about new scams and how to protect yourself

James Barnacle, a top F.B.I. official is here with a warning for Americans about new ways scam artists are targeting people, with a stunning amount of money lost every year.

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[RW]

Unless you have an appointment at my home, I don't answer my door. PERIOD.

[erineddy]

Just think what a different world we would have if fraudsters and scammers spent all that time and energy actually contributing to society.

[TimeTheory]

I don't answer my phone or my door unless I know them. Even now that's not enough.

[lizhall]

I think those who scam the elderly hould have life in prison

[rustinpierce]

Never open the door or answer phone or reply to email ot text

[Sara-mfpx]

New scam I just heard… package comes to your house. QR code to see who sent it. When you scan the QR code, boom, the have all your info from your phone. Be careful with QR codes!!

[daisyle]

I ignore emails, texts, odd sales pitches on FB and anyone that comes to the door unexpected, they meet my dog first. They are dumb enough to try and open, they meet me and my Beretta.

[TJHambright-fkeq]

The government could stop this if they wanted to!

[WillowEtain]

This is exactly why I don’t answer my phone o and don’t open the majority of my emails

[EastStarc]

Sad!!! I protect my mother age 88 Don't even think about it!!

[joegug]

Are we all getting dumber or are the scammers getting smarter ?

[vonrock]

We’ve had a scam happening for almost 4 yrs.

[saraxdouglas]

Criminals pick the lonely and the If they can find a lonely senior citizen its a gold mine for them. 💙☮️🙏

[BNK]

Especially the elderly. No one can get by me with those crazy stunts

[sofiachampion]

They target the elderly where thought processes are a bit slower. They scare them and that is the emotion. When someone reports it, nothing happens until a lot of people report the same problem. Don't hold back; report anything right away. I was victimized by a family stopping at my home and requesting money to get to Miami and yet had a temp California plate for a brand new SUV. The woman barged into my house because we are elderly and disabled. She kept trying to sell crap jewelry. She scouted our entire house and kept opening dresser drawers to dump the jewelry. I was scared that the family would return and either squat or steal or claim we stole that crap jewelry. We were not even in the house but in the yard working. What happened when reported? We are in fear as zero happened.

[samster]

We finally got a Ring doorbell so we don't have to go to the door to check.

[virtual]

All these scammers need to be arrested.

[AI_MIT_]

The scammers (from places no one knows) know that not all Westerners are created equally. Some are very easy to scam.

[hopeful]

The scamming is just horrendous! To protect the elder family members I would educate them on a daily basis. For those with Dementia or Alzheimer’s it is a good idea to get them an iPhone if they don’t already have one and setup the Accessibility which limits what they have access to on their phone and you can also setup who they can receive calls from, so they will no longer receive scam calls! 😊

[philsbootleg]

how can we pay taxes if we are not being protected from scams?