Thursday, March 25, 2021

Baker Report: Nigeria arrests and charges man who fraudulently obtained unemployment benefits in Virginia

 

Baker Fraud Report – News you can use

Top Stories
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

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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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