Cold weather, hot scams.

This episode highlights current social engineering and fraud trends: scammers exploited a Verizon outage with fake credit offers, a rare case saw a victim recover nearly $1M, fraudsters leveraged the Ozempic/GLP-1 boom with deepfake ads and bogus pharmacies, and utility impostors used urgent threats and fake refunds to steal money and personal data, with a reminder to verify contacts through official channels.