Upstander

Scam Weather

You're not alone. Here's what people reported this week.
Oct 15 to Oct 22

Your neighbors on Upstander

Fewer than 5

scams reported

15

messages checked

Fewer than 5

Heads Ups sent

Near you

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Reported to the FTC

Not yet verified

56,604

unwanted-call reports
71% were robocalls
What the calls were about
Other
21,539
Reducing your debt (credit cards, mortgage, student loans)
15,097
Calls pretending to be government, businesses, or family and friends
6,133
Most reports from
California
5,434
Florida
5,093
Texas
3,909
Pennsylvania
2,518
Illinois
2,485

Reported to the FCC

Not yet verified

3,968

unwanted-call reports
32% were robocalls
What the calls were about
Prerecorded Voice
1,264
Text Message
1,233
Live Voice
857
Most reports from
Florida
523
Texas
354
California
320
Pennsylvania
194
Colorado
157

From official yearly reports

$15.9 billion

reported lost to fraud in 2025, from 3 million fraud reports

$3.5 billion

lost to imposter scams in 2025, the most-reported kind of fraud

$20 billion+

in losses reported to the FBI in 2025, from about 1 million complaints

$7.7 billion

lost by people 60 and older in 2025, from 201,000+ complaints