Business
‘What a fool I was’: Reported scams reach record high of $15.9 billion, and estimates reach upwards of $500 billion annually
Headline as filed by Fortune. PageNews does not write or rewrite headlines.
PageNews Brief
One publisher, Fortune, has reported this so far, at 20:31 UTC on 2 September 2026.
No other outlet PageNews follows has covered it. If one files, their report will be added to this page and the comparison below will fill out.
The coverage is filed under Business. The publisher's own headline, summary and link is below.
Compiled by PageNews from the report listed below — who filed it and when. No publisher wrote this section.
Coverage from 1 publisher
-
Fortune
‘What a fool I was’: Reported scams reach record high of $15.9 billion, and estimates reach upwards of $500 billion annually
According to former prosecutor and founder of nonprofit Operation Shamrock Erin West, "what happens after the scam might even be worse than the scam itself."
Read on Fortune →
Reader comments
Comments are written by readers. PageNews does not check them and does not stand behind them, and a name here is a name someone typed, not a person we have identified.
Nobody has commented on this story yet.