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FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center issues 2020
fraud report
- Record number of
complaints, up 70% from 2019; losses $4.1 billion
- BEC frauds largest loss;
cost $1.8 billion
- Romance scams second in
losses; over $600 million
- Tech support fraud keeps
growing; up 171% in losses from 2019
- State by state breakdown (Click on
state names at the top)
New scam advertises car rentals on web sites; must
prepay with a gift card; victim arrives at rental company but has no
reservation and lose their money; sites registered in Ukraine and India
San Diego: Two Canadians indicted for role in Sky
Global, which operated encrypted phones used by criminals worldwide;
system closed down
Virus Benefit
Theft
Question of the
Week. Nigeria does prosecute romance scammers, though it
is not clear how the cases come to their attention. Do the major
fraud complaint centers share information with Nigeria? Thus if they find
one victim for a scammer in Nigeria, can we locate other victims that
dealt with the same scammer using the same name to enhance charges and
sentence in Nigeria?
Studies I’ve
done for BBB can all be found here. Here are links to some of
the study topics: puppy fraud, tech support fraud, romance fraud money mules, apartment rental, crooked movers, government imposters, online vehicle sale scams, rental fraud and gift cards.
Fraud News From
Around the world
Humor
FTC and CFPB
Business Email
compromise fraud (read BBB study)
Social Media
Ransomware
Bitcoin and
cryptocurrency
ATM skimming
Jamaica and
Lottery Fraud (read BBB lottery fraud study)
Romance Fraud
and Sextortion (read BBB romance fraud study)
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