An epidemic of digital financial scams

Although I typically focus on investment topics, I'm shifting gears to discuss a different aspect of finance: digital financial security. Hearing about numerous instances where senior citizens are primarily targeted in digital thefts is becoming increasingly common. Are we going through a spate of attempted financial fraud? You know, the kind where someone calls you with some story or the other, which, if you are gullible, will end in you giving away money digitally to someone. Based on what one hears, we have had crores of attempted frauds in the last few months. I believe this because I don't know anyone, family, friends or colleagues, who hasn't faced such an attempt in recent months. If we really have wall-to-wall coverage of such frauds, if practically every person with a phone is facing such attempts, then there must surely be crores-maybe tens of crores of such attempt