Trump: For Years, Our Nation Has Faced a Growing Menace of ‘Cybercrime’ Perpetrated by Fraudsters, Hackers and Scammers

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TRUMP: "For years our nation has faced a growing menace of cybercrime perpetrated by fraudsters hackers, and scammers who try to steal Americans’ money prey on senior citizens exploit children and young people through fraud ransomware, impersonization the schemes that they use for impersonization and other illegal acts. It’s very, very severe When you see some of the things that we’re finding in Minnesota California, we have crooked politicians running the places it really gets bad Countless American victims have had their life savings bank accounts, college funds, and more emptied by these thieves and that’s exactly what they are. They’re often part of a sophisticated criminal syndicate operating scam centers all around the world Almost three quarters of American adults have been subjected to internet scams or cyber attacks It’s pretty amazing. Americans reported losing more than 20 billion dollars to cyber enabled crimes and this is just what’s reported so the number would be probably many times that amount I was just last year alone the real number would be really I think, quite a bit higher Every American who has an aging parent or a young son or daughter has felt the anxiety of knowing that those you love are using internet service overrun by thieves and pirates predators, and foreign criminals Under the Trump Administration we have marshaled the full force of the federal government to combat this scourge We have very talented people We have people that do nothing but this and they’re really good at it I’ve seen some examples. Amazing actually In March I signed an executive order directing every relevant department and agency to work together to combat predatory internet schemes and establish a victims restoration program to recover as much money for the victims as possible I, I wish we could get it all but it oftentimes doesn’t work that way because they spend it they spend it before they get it In August I signed a historic national security memorandum unleashing the incredible talent tools and resources of our private sector and companies to undertake offensive and defensive actions to stop the hackers and these horrible people that we talk about predators, cyber criminals including industrial scam centers stealing from American families and American businesses"