Best Buy Tops the List of Companies Most Impersonated by Scammers, FTC Says

Is that email really from the Geek Squad? Be careful. It could be a fraudster looking to steal your money or personal information.

April 15, 2025 · 1 min · 48 words · Charles Berry

Those numbers were followed by 34,000 reports of scammers impersonating Amazon and about 10,000 falsely claiming to be PayPal.

Those companies were impersonated in just 7 million reported scams each.

Best Buy said in a Friday statement that the safety of its customers is of the utmost importance.