Data says Utahns lost $72 million to online scams last year; Woman shares story of being catfished, but avoiding monetary scam
SALT LAKE CITY — Online scams almost doubled from pre-pandemic 2019 to 2021, according to FBI crime data analyzed by the anti-scam website Social Catfish.
Among the scams claiming more victims was catfishing, which means pretending to enter into a long-distance romance in order to get money from a victim or to use the victim in a money-laundering scheme."I decided to go on Tinder just to see what was there," Harlan told FOX 13 News. Robert told her he was an engineer who lived in the United States but was working on a contract in Turkey.
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