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WSJ: How Much Do You Know About Cyber Scams? Take the Journal’s Quiz.
By SIMON CONSTABLE
The cyber scammers are still stealing your money, and, in many cases, they seem to be getting better at their chosen field, according to recently released data from the FBI.
The 2024 Internet Crime Report is the latest edition of an annual report on cybercrime scams reported to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. It combines information from 859,532 complaints of suspected internet crime and details reported losses exceeding $16 billion.
How much do you know about the latest scams? Test yourself on our quiz.
Read more here for more questions and answers.
Poland’s soaring economy sets stage for tight presidential race as US, EU watch closely
By SIMON CONSTABLE
Poland is going to vote in a presidential runoff Sunday. The country is one of the few economic success stories in Europe.
Its economy is growing far faster than some of the larger economies. It grew 2.9% last year, eclipsing 2.8% growth in the U.S. And it slammed Europe’s three largest economies with minus 0.2% growth for Germany and plus 1.1% for both in France and the U.K.
Poland's economy has grown 11 times larger since 1986, almost twice as fast as the U.S. did over the same period.
"The last year or two has seen a boom, and it's getting publicity," Mateusz Urban, a senior economist at Oxford Economics in Warsaw, Poland, told FOX Business earlier this year. "There really is a European tiger right at Germany’s door." Read more here.
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Thursday, May 29, 2025
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