UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN River Falls
October 20, 2021
Voice phishing, or vishing, is any scam that begins with a phone call. Global loss due to telephone fraud is estimated to exceed $46 billion dollars this year. Recently, a staff member received two calls regarding her social security number being deactivated on the same day! In the first nine months of 2021, the federal trade commission reported $577 million in Covid related fraud, $5.7 million in Wisconsin alone - and that doesn’t include losses or events that went unreported!
Here are a few things you can do to protect yourself:
Be safe out there!