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by B_Throwaway 2424 days ago
Alternative headline:

Americans lose on average 16 cents to phone scams in the last year.

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Yes, you can play with statistics that way if you want to sweep the problem under the carpet. If only the victims could get their potentially life changing losses amortized over the country's population somehow.
Chicago citizens were on average murdered .0002 times in the last year
It seems remarkably low, especially since it's supposedly the victims reporting to the FBI "some sort of phishing scam", (just phone scams, or including email etc?) "A whopping 26,379 people."

Australians are expected to report over $532 million (AUD) in losses in 2019: https://www.scamwatch.gov.au/news/record-losses-expected-as-...