The FBI’s San Francisco office has warned the public against a new scam called “The Phantom Hacker” that targets older adults.
In the new scam, swindlers pretend to be tech support staff, bank employees and government officials and contact older adults to deceive them into thinking that foreign hackers have infiltrated their financial account, the FBI said Tuesday in an advisory.
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