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Seena Gressin
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Colleen Tressler
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FTC says Walmart allowed fraud involving money transfers
Bridget Small
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Protect your Medicare number, your other info, and your money
Bridget Small
Last year, the FTC got almost a million reports about impersonation scammers — fake government agents, pretend grandkids, bogus sweethearts, and others who took almost $2.3 billion from people across the country. So far this year, impersonation scams are still the most-reported fraud.