Scams rise as El Pasoans spend more time online during pandemic Published
Scams rise as El Pasoans spend more time online during pandemic
EL PASO, Texas Nearly 800,000 complaints of suspected internet crime were reported in 2020, according to the FBI. That represents an increase of more than 300,000 complaints from 2019, and reported losses exceed $4.2 billion. The FBI tells ABC-7 these crimes happened in different sectors, many occurring on social media. One of the most popular social media accounts we see reports 116,00 hacks a day. It is very prominent, it is easy to do as far as cyber-hackers because they train and have developed very sophisticated techniques, said Jeanette Harper, an FBI Special Agent based in El Paso.
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Of all the things that have been damaged in the past 10 months, it is the shrinking of the concept of “family” that many have found the most upsetting. What existed, a short while ago, as a frequent mingling of ages and generations, has, in plenty of cases, been reduced to Zoom windows and remote conversations. The babble of children with grandparents, the catching up with siblings, reminiscences with relatives – much has been boxed up and pushed into a virtual world that feels a wan substitute for normality.
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Local comic misses US$.1m Wheel of Fortune prize, but wins $16,000
Trinidad-born stand-up comic Arthur Joseph was one of the contestants on Wheel of Fortune on February 26. -
On Friday night on an episode of Wheel of Fortune aired on the ABC network, Trinidad-born stand-up comic Arthur Joseph emerged as the big winner, with almost US$16,000.
Joseph said there is a big difference between watching the game on TV and being live on stage, and at one point he was doing so poorly he wondered if he could switch to Jeopardy.
He broke down his experience on the show during a telephone interview with Newsday.