How Covid Helped Heists, Hoaxes, Scams, Cons, and Other Mischief

The pandemic was a bonanza for streaming media services, real estate brokers, and bulk toilet tissue suppliers. It also wasn’t bad for bike thieves, sellers of dubious financial products, and members of obscure royal families who just so happen to be sitting on an enormous fortune they’d love to share if only you’d wire them $10,000 in cash today.
 
Blue indicates 2020 data that increased from 2019. Red indicates 2020 data that decreased from 2019.