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The FTC reveals what the hottest text message scams are right now

With the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) making it harder for robocallers to survive, scammers have moved their game over to text messaging and the number of fraud reports nearly doubled in the last year, from 13,677 to 25,725, costing consumers more than $300 million in losses.

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