Women - Amen 🙏 - at Olympic Games
- Published by David Knox
- August 2021
This week on Insight Kumi Tagchi moderates a discussion on “Life Undercover.”
What happens when your livelihood depends on deceiving, manipulating and lying about who you really are? On this episode of Insight, we ask undercover police officers, victims of undercover stings, and a man who lived a three-year lie: What are the moral and ethical challenges of living a double life?
Russia Disconnects from Internet in Tests as It Bolsters Security
Six Nigerians on FBI Most wanted list
In depth article on unemployment benefit theft in the U.S.
- May hit $440 billion
- Bots used to file for unemployment
- IP addresses from China, Nigeria and Russia
- Also Cuba, Eritrea, Fiji and Monaco
Why people can’t cut their losses; the sunk cost fallacy
Review and recommendation: High Noon, for which Gary Cooper won the best actor Oscar. Excellent, and not a shoot ‘em up. An honorable man faced with a town that won’t help. Named one of the 25 best films ever made.
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
- Peru arrests state workers for charging for access to ICU beds
- DOJ seizes two websites claiming to sell vaccine
- Microsoft reports that 65% of Canadian adults have been exposed to a tech support scam
- DEA, FBI and Postal Inspectors seize money from part owner of a safety deposit box company; used to launder money for “free trial offer,” drugs, and other fraud; gold, weapons, $86 million grabbed
- Radio interview on calls claiming a relative has been kidnapped
- Police in Maine seize cocaine disguised as cake
- 14 year old forced to do house chores reports parents for “illegal child labor”
- California man busted for stealing porta-potty truck
- Los Angeles man arrested for $27 million PPP fraud
- Georgia: 22 across the country charged with PPP fraud; six of them plead guilty
- California: Three inmates charged in $1.4 million unemployment benefit scam
- Nebraska news director indicted over PPP fraud
- IRS warns scammers now looking to child tax credit
- Virginia: Man gets nine years prison for $500,000 PPP scam
- Texas man gets 11 years prison for $24.5 million PPP fraud
- Ransomware gangs are collaborating with each other
- Tech firm hit by Kaseye gets key to unlock data for at least hundreds of businesses
- Hits private girls school in NY state
- Checkpoint reports ransomware grew 93% in the last year
- British Columbia man flees to China after being charged for scam impersonating Canada Revenue Agency
- DC: Jury convicts man of stolen identity refund fraud
- UK Dad commits suicide after becoming romance fraud victim
- Nigeria: Man gets ten years prison for romance fraud; impersonated US military
- Romance fraud victim met scammer on scrabble site Words with Friends
- Boston: Nigerian man charged with romance and other frauds
- Boston: Two Nigerians charged with romance fraud
- Romance fraud doubles in Hong Kong; HK $288 million lost
- Singapore: woman embezzles $1.5 million from Charity; sends it to romance scammer