{"id":389527,"date":"2026-07-07T18:57:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T18:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/389527\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T18:57:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T18:57:12","slug":"san-francisco-launches-anti-scam-program-to-combat-growing-fraud-nbc-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/389527\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco launches anti-scam program to combat growing fraud \u2013 NBC Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco is launching what city leaders call the first program of its kind in the country to help combat the growing number of scams and fraud cases.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Federal Trade Commission, Americans lost $158 billion to fraud last year, with losses increasing 25% in 2024 alone.<\/p>\n<p>City leaders say while adults 60 and older are especially vulnerable, scams are affecting people of all ages across San Francisco and California.<\/p>\n<p>Among those sharing their experience is Jonah Raskin, a retired Sonoma State University communications professor, who said he lost $30,000 in a scam.<\/p>\n<p>Raskin joined city officials and San Francisco Treasurer Jos\u00e9 Cisneros as the city unveiled Stop Scams SF.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said adults 60 and older reported losing $2.4 billion to fraud in 2024, up from $600 million in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The city said the new initiative combines free financial counseling, real-time alerts about emerging scams and reforms aimed at making scams easier to identify, particularly in interactions with the public sector.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said the program will be privately funded for its first three years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Francisco is launching what city leaders call the first program of its kind in the country to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,28489,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-389527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-scams","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}