Google has helped launch a public awareness campaign to keep people from falling for online scams that capitalize on the coronavirus pandemic.
The campaign, Scam Spotter, aims to spread the basics of online awareness, like how to recognize a phony IRS call, or to be wary of a stranger insisting on being quickly paid in gift cards.
The COVID-19 scare has inspired an enormous boom in cybercrime. It’s particularly hit older Americans: those 50 and older have reported a combined nearly $10 million in money lost to coronavirus-themed fraud, according to FTC complaints.