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Americans reported losing $3.5 billion to imposter scams last year, the FTC says

A single “Lucky in Love” Pyrex piece sold on eBay for over $21,000

Chips, faded prints and dishwasher etching can wipe out most of a Pyrex set’s value

Phone glitches with Android Auto and CarPlay top car complaints for a third year running

Romance and “wrong number” texts kick off the year’s costliest crypto scams

No real official will send someone to your door to collect money, the FBI warns

One Pyrex pattern, “Lucky in Love,” routinely fetches $1,000 to $4,000 in good shape

The FBI says courier scammers sometimes collect gold and silver, not just cash

Scammers shift you to WhatsApp, then vanish before ever meeting, the FTC warns

The FTC says “pig butchering” scammers always move you to WhatsApp and never agree to meet

Investment-scam apps look real until the cash is gone, and victims even pass fake “tests”

Anyone over 60 hit by these scams can call the DOJ’s elder-fraud hotline, the FBI says

The cash-courier scam often opens with romance or a “wrong number” text, then a knock

A full Pyrex bowl set sells for hundreds, far more than buying the bowls one by one

Egyptian archaeologists opened 22 sealed “Chanters of Amun” coffins in a single Luxor tomb

The FBI’s “phantom hacker” scam stacks three fake callers to empty seniors’ savings

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