Texting is a big part of our daily lives, with most of us preferring to dash off a quick message instead of picking up the phone these days. Thanks to its prevalence, scammers have also tapped into texting as a way to try out their latest schemes, and unfortunately, they’ve gotten very good at fooling their victims. Now, police are warning about one fraudulent message that could show up on your phone. Read on to find out what text you’ll want to look out for, and why police are urging you to avoid clicking on it.
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Concerns about the job market and layoffs are palpable, as fears of a recession persist and the Federal Reserve continues to raise interest rates in an effort to slow inflation. That being said, the country is in a better place now than it was during the height of the pandemic, when unemployment reached all-time highs. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, in the second quarter of 2020, the unemployment rate leaped to a staggering 13 percent.
While we’re not fully out of the woods yet when it comes to COVID, the unemployment rate has since dropped to 3.5 percent in July 2022, which matches the pre-pandemic rate in Feb. 2020, the U.S. Department of Labor confirmed in a press release on Aug. 5. But that number includes a total of 5.7 million Americans who don’t…
