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Since the first stimulus payment last year, the Federal Trade Commission says it’s received more than 340,000 reports of fraud. Those scams have cost victims more than $321 million.

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In the summer of 2021, the IRS issued warnings about a new wave of stimulus scams, this one coinciding with the completion of the third round of payments that came from the American Rescue Plan.

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