{"id":1006037,"date":"2026-04-30T11:46:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T06:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1006037"},"modified":"2026-04-30T11:46:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T06:16:24","slug":"meta-owned-facebook-emerges-as-biggest-source-of-social-media-scams-in-us-followed-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/30\/meta-owned-facebook-emerges-as-biggest-source-of-social-media-scams-in-us-followed-by\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta-owned Facebook emerges as biggest source of social media scams in US, followed by \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US Federal Trade Commission said that social media has become a major source of online scams in the country, with new data showing that nearly 30% of people who reported losing money to scams in 2025 said the fraud started on social platforms. According to the FTC, reported losses from social media scams reached $2.1 billion in 2025. The agency said this is an eightfold increase compared to 2020 and higher than losses from any other method used by scammers to contact people.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook leads in reported losses: FTC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Federal Trade Commission said that social media has become a major source of online scams in the country, with new data showing that nearly 30% of people who reported losing money to scams in 2025 said the fraud started on social platforms. According to the FTC, reported losses from social media scams reached $2.1 billion in 2025. The agency said this is an eightfold increase compared to 2020 and higher than losses from any other method used by scammers to contact people. Facebook leads in reported losses: FTC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1006037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1006037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1006038,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006037\/revisions\/1006038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}