Bakers Report: US got 5.9 billion robocalls in June

Eddie Obeid, Ian Macdonald and Moses Obeid found guilty over rigged tender

KPMG settles legal claims after failing to spot fraud at Chinese group China Forestry’s IPO led to backlash against poor listing standards in Hong Kong

‘Illicit gain’: Australia accuses China of criminal cyber attacks

Keir Starmer, it’s time we had a frank discussion about tax 

• No 10 hammers out plan to fix UK social care system with tax rise (16 Jul 2021)
• Powering ideas through expertise: professionals in global tax battles (13 Jul 2021)
• The future of tax justice (12 Jul 2021)
  
• Brussels puts digital sales tax plan on ice after US pressure (12 Jul 2021)
• Apple's two UK divisions pay just £9m in UK corporation tax as sales top £1.1bn (12 Jul 2021)
  
• EU aluminium groups seek exclusion from carbon border tax (12 Jul 2021)
• Businesses overpaying corporation tax up by 26 per cent to record £11.5bn (12 Jul 2021)
• Corruption: Tories have unhealthy financial reliance on property developers (12 Jul 2021)
• HOUSE OF CARDS - EXPLORING ACCESS AND INFLUENCE IN UK HOUSING POLICY (12 Jul 2021)
  
• UK wealth gap widens in pandemic as richest get £50,000 windfall (12 Jul 2021)
• (Wealth) gap year - The impact of the coronavirus crisis on UK household wealth (12 Jul 2021)
• Varadkar defends Ireland’s opposition to global minimum corporate tax rate (12 Jul 2021)
• Modern Monetary Theory and the Changing Role of Tax in Society (11 Jul 2021)
• G20 finance ministers back deal to tax companies (10 Jul 2021)
• Tax financial transactions to help Covid recovery, G20 told (8 Jul 2021)
• Letter to  G20 Finance Ministers on the occasion of their meeting on 9/10 July 2021 Urging the immediate introduction of Financial Transactions Taxes to improve economic stability and support public investment, particularly in developing countries, to pay for healthcare, jobs and the costs of climate impacts (8 Jul 2021)
  
• How to fund social care without bankrupting the young (7 Jul 2021)
  
• MPs fear G7 tax avoidance crackdown will scupper Plymouth freeport (5 Jul 2021)

Billion Years of Tectonic Plate Movement in 40 Seconds Visual Capitalist 

On This German Farm, Cows Are in Charge. Or at Least Coequals. NYT

Top Stories   News Nigeria: How Ray Hushpuppi became wealthy as a social influencer and how he laundered BEC funds   Largest ransomware attack to date hits thousands of businesses in at least 17 countries through IT service companies   US got 5.9 billion robocalls in June Up 11% from May Spam text messages on track to reach 86 billion; a 55% increase from 2020 Most common robocall is for extended vehicle warranties Singapore investigating 334 as money mules for BEC, romance, tech support and other scams                                              DOJ announces another $66 million in refund checks are going out to scam victims that sent money through Western Union To date more than $300 million has gone to 142,000 victims BBB Studies. 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 Uganda: Two nurses arrested over using counterfeit vaccine India: Two doctors arrested for using fake vaccines CBS: Thousands in India thought they were getting vaccine, but it was really just saline Fraud News Around the world UK plans to upgrade fraud reporting system at Action Fraud Ohio: Man charged with binary option investment fraud EFCC in Nigeria arrests 14 for internet fraud AT&T says it is now blocking 1 billion robocalls per month Mass marketing fraud keeps growing in Hong Kong; romance, grandparent scams, others EFCC in Nigeria arrests owners of big Lagos nightclub for internet fraud Scam hits Iranian victims claiming to offer internet services through Starlink Scammers making real efforts to use facial recognition Humor Museum of Appalachia to shoot anvils into the air on 4th of July Short videos of stupid criminals Drunk men in Arkansas shoot each other to test bullet proof vest FTC and CFPB   NYT: Sparks at first FTC Commission meeting since Lina Khan becomes Chair FTC adopts new Made in the USA labeling rule; standards remain the same but FTC can now get civil penalties; Commissioner Wilson dissents, contending this is beyond FTC legal authority Congress asks why the CFPB is pushing out career senior managers Virus Benefit Theft Florida man gets more than 3 years prison for PPP fraud; must forfeit large catamaran; $3 million plus Oregon man pleads guilty to PPP fraud New Jersey man pleads guilty to PPP fraud; took in $5.6 million; had booked a flight to Pakistan Four in Los Angeles convicted of PPP and EIDL loan fraud after trial Delaware:Woman indicted for PPP fraud New Jersey: Woman indicted for PPP and EIDL fraud Business Email compromise fraud (read BBB study) Australia seeing an increase in BEC scams hitting construction companies Ransomware FBI’s IC3 releases suggestions for those potentially at risk from the Kaseye ransomware attack Attack on the UK data center of the Salvation Army Hits Las Vegas medical center Attack on rural Alabama electric company Data Breaches Additional criminal charges against woman over Capital One data breach that got hundreds of thousands of social security numbers; over 30 organizations hacked, likely including Amazon Web Services Bitcoin and cryptocurrency National Consumers League warns of big increase in cryto currency investment scams US moving toward regulating cryptocurrencies ATM skimming Alaska: 30 months prison (2 ½ years) for Romanian over ATM skimming Jamaica and Lottery Fraud (read BBB lottery fraud study) South Carolina: Four indicted for laundering money for Jamaican telemarketing sweepstakes scams; handled $665,000 from seniors Arkansas AG settles with 73 year old money mule handling sweepstakes victims fund for Jamaican scammers; to pay $100,000 Romance Fraud and Sextortion (read BBB romance fraud study) New York: Woman extradited from Ghana gets nearly six years prison for laundering money from BEC and romance scams; helped launder $10 million Nigeria convicts two for romance fraud Nigeria sentences man to prison for romance fraud