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BBB sees rise in employment scams in 2022

Mar 7, 2023 | 12:32 PM

The Better Business Bureau continues to see a rise in employment scams. Those types of scams ranked number 2 in their Risk Report in 2022. BBB Wisconsin spokesperson Lisa Schiller says most employment scams they see are a variant of the bad check scam. That’s when a scammer sends you a fake check, asks you to cash it for your payment, and then send back the rest. When that check bounces, you’re out the money. People who were caught in this scam lost over 15 hundred dollars on average, as opposed to the total average loss of around 170 dollars.