sector, and it described how a certain type of fraud, when victims are tricked and manipulated into transferring money to criminals themselves that was up by 46% in the course of just one year. to put that another way, that s £500 million that was stolen from 200,000 people in just the last year so, within those numbers, investment scams are up 60% to £166 million stolen, romance fraud scams, so not just the financial hit but the emotional hit as well, they re up as well, a 77% increase in the space of a year, to seeing £30 million stolen from just over 3,000 victims. fraud is a big, big problem in the uk. staggering figures. why has it got so bad? criminals, fundamentally, are extremely good at theirjob. they are ruthlessly efficient at manipulating people, they are very good at social engineering, and social engineering is when, for example,
police asking anyone with information on her whereabouts to give them a call. gillian. dana: alexis in new york city for us this morning. dana: home buyers say mortgage rates are making homeownership nearly impossible. according to freddy mac the rate on a 30 year mortgage jumped to 5.25% from 3.1% in december. here is cheryl casone to weigh in. a lot of people are struggling trying to find their dream home. first time home buyers are struggling because of mortgage rates jumping so much. in a $500 difference in what your mortgage would be in six months. it hurts the first-time home buyer. you have 166 million millennials or younger in this country now population-wise. that s 30% of the home buyers out there searching are those younger buyers. dana: but millennials aren t as young as they used to be. none of us are. but they re parents now.
it happened so quickly, going from bag total low apolitical person to dying for trump. american radical, a new msnbc original podcast coming sunday. follow now. that does it for me. the reidout with joy reid starts now. hi, joy. how are you doing, ari? thank you very much, have a great evening. good evening, everybody, we are following a number of stories including the january 6th committee meeting at this hour to vote on filing concept charges against jeffrey clark. then there is the first confirmed case of the omicron variant of covid in the united states. we have to begin with reidout with what was a watershed day with the supreme court inching closer to overturning nearly 5 years of law. if you happen bed to be one of the 166 million women living in
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which have become more rampant with the delta variant. but it s important to remember out of 166 million fully vaccinated americans, only 8,000 breakthrough cases have resulted in severe disease or death. in a statement king stressed he d been following all masking and social distancing protocols. their diagnoses make the total number of senators who tested positive 11. more than 50 house members have also tested positive on both sides of the aisle. among several other lawmakers testing positive this summer was south carolina republican senator lindsey graham who tested positive after attending a gathering hosted by democratic senator joe manchin. then there s texas governor greg abbott who has opposed mask mandates and issued executive orders banning school districts from requiring masks. on tuesday, abbott despite getting the vaccine and a booster joining the surging number of positive cases plaguing his state. have any lessons been determined. graham said in a follow-up tweet, i m v