By alang.consultant New York (Knewz) Americans saw an astounding 70 percent jump in the amount of money they lost to fraud in 2021, according to the Federal Trade Commission. Last year, Americans lost $5.8 billion to fraud and reports came from 2.8 million consumers, according to FTC. The most common type of fraud was imposter scams, followed by online shopping scams. Consumers lost more than $2.3 billion in imposter scams, according to the FTC. That is up from $1.2 billion in 2020. Online shopping accounted for $392 million in losses, up from $246 million in 2020. There were also more than 67…