LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Nevada shoppers reported dropping greater than $138 million to fraud in 2024, a report from the Federal Commerce Fee mentioned.
The FTC mentioned in a launch that it obtained 24,331 fraud stories from shoppers in Nevada in 2024, which amounted to losses that totalled $138,538,256, with a median lack of $519.
The data comes from the FTC’s Shopper Sentinel Community, which analyzes stories from shoppers, regulation enforcement in any respect ranges, the Higher Enterprise Bureau, trade members, and non-profit organizations.
Throughout all sorts of stories, not simply fraud, the FTC obtained a complete of 73,271 stories from Nevada shoppers.
“Reports from around the country about consumer protection issues—including identity theft, fraud, and other categories—are a key resource for FTC and other law enforcement agencies’ investigations that stop illegal activities and, when possible, provide refunds to consumers,” the discharge said.
The highest class of stories from Nevada shoppers was credit score bureaus and knowledge furnished, adopted by identification theft, imposter scams, banks and lenders, and debt assortment.
Nationally, 2.6 million shoppers reported dropping $12.5 billion to fraud in 2024, which is a 25 p.c enhance from 2023 information. Studies present shoppers misplaced more cash to funding scams, about $5.7 billion, than some other class in 2024.
The second highest class was imposter scams, with reported losses of $2.95 billion.
The complete information set from the FTC for 2024 may be discovered at this hyperlink.
