The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has issued a public warning about a new financial scam dubbed “The Phantom Hacker” that is targeting older people’s life savings.
The agency’s field office in Denver announced in a statement that scammers typically contact older Americans and pretend to be tech support, bank employees, and government officials. They then lie to victims in an attempt to deceive them into thinking that foreign hackers have infiltrated their financial accounts, while in reality, there was never any foreign hacker.
