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Tuesday, June 01, 2021

China arrests 80 selling counterfeit vaccines; seizes shots; worked with Interpol


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Baker Fraud Report


Top Stories
China arrests 80 selling counterfeit vaccines; seizes shots; worked with Interpol
 
From last week but with a bad link, so repeating
FBI warns that scammers are now finding missing persons reports on line and calling families claiming falsely that the lost person was kidnapped and demanding ransom  
 
Crooks are stealing business checks from mailboxes, altering them, and using banking apps to deposit them and then withdraw funds quickly; hope business will not notice bogus payments
 
California man gets over ten years prison for phone scam operating in Peru that scammed US Spanish speakers; claimed victims had failed to pay for products
 
Should cryptocurrency simply be banned so we can eliminate ransomware?
 
Reviews and Recommendations:  Some of the best fiction books I’ve read in years are the Patrick O’Brian Aubrey/Maturin novels, involving the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic wars. Several books were combined for the movie Master and Commander. I highly recommend any of them.

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.
Coronavirus

 

  
    

Humor

FTC and CFPB  

Virus Benefit Theft

Business Email compromise fraud (read BBB study)

Social Media

Ransomware

Data Breaches

IRS and tax frauds

Romance Fraud and Sextortion (read BBB romance fraud study)