There’s no good time to be the victim of a scam, but it can be especially troublesome during the holiday season. The FBI is warning residents of Illinois about nasty scams that are trying to take advantage of those doing holiday shopping.
This new bulletin from the FBI in Chicago is a stark warning to everyone in Illinois doing holiday shopping called “FBI Chicago Warns Public About Growing Frauds and Scams Throughout the Holiday Season”. They say that in Illinois alone, there was a total of $500 million in fraud complaints to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center. Those targeted the most were those in Illinois above the age of 60…