News that the British Virgin Islands tax authority is cooperating with the ATO will surely freeze the blood of Karantzis and his associates, including chairman Tim Hart, non-executive director Scott Minehane and company secretary Todd Richards, all of whose own BVI entities were happy recipients of iSignthis performance shares. The case continues.
ATO files evidence in Karantzis case
you rather be a failure or a fraud? Judging by the opening statements in Elizabeth Holmes’ wire fraud trial, those seem to be Holmes’ options
Kashmiri Poets Say India Is Censoring Them
Poet Ghulam Mohammad Bhat: "In the last 30 years I have never seen this kind of suppression. ... There is silence everywhere, as if the silence is the best cure for our present crisis." - The New York Times
Scientific fraud vs. art forgery (or, why are so many scientific frauds so easy to detect? Dynamic Ecology (dk). Because incentives!
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WSJ: T-Mobile hacker that stole data on 10 million talks to the JournalDOJ criminal charges and civil court complaint against US citizen living in Ukraine that posted small charges debiting bank accounts that were wholly bogus; millions lost ; complicated scam
Massachusetts: Four charged with processing $150 million in credit card charges for debt reduction scams, payday lending and online gambling and other high risk areas
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
- South Africa: Woman from India who testified about massive PPE scam murdered
- 14 arrested in New York for fake vaccine cards; one who sold the cards and entered them in the state database; 13 who bought cards
- Maryland: Two Nigerians plead guilty, one a USPS letter carrier, stole checks and credit cards from the mail; took $565,000
- FBI in New York launches elder fraud educational campaign
- Texas: Three plead guilty for laundering money for Social Security and other scams; handled $3.2 million
- EFCC in Nigeria says 70% of young people may be involved in cyber fraud
- EFCC in Nigeria arrests 37 for cyber fraud
- How scammers are now using QR codes
- EFCC in Nigeria arrests man who impersonated police and then took “bribes” to prevent arrest of Yahoo boys
- Police in Dehli, India, have busted over 50 call centers
- FCC adopts rule allowing private entities such as businesses to report robocalls
- SEC shuts down $17.6 million Ponzi scheme that claimed investments in foreign currency
- Package with $1 million worth of cocaine washes up on Florida beach
- Oscar Mayer Weinermobile to surprise Lyft riders
- Man arrested for training his dog to throw bricks at people ringing his doorbell
- Police car crashes in France after officer fires taser at driver
FTC and CFPB Virus Benefit Theft
- Iowa man gets nine months prison for theft of unemployment benefits
- Virginia: Man gets 70 months prison for theft of mail, ID theft, and forging virus benefit checks
- DOJ settles false claim act case with owner of jet charter company who spent PPP money on personal expenses
- West Virginia: Five plead guilty to fraud in getting unemployment benefits; took in $499,000
- Canada: Nigerian in the GTA arrested for buying used cars and shipping them to Nigeria to launder scam money
- New Jersey: Two letter carriers charged with theft of unemployment benefit cards from the mail
- California: Authorities search for couple who disappeared after conviction for PPP fraud
- Virgin Islands: Woman pleads guilty to PPP fraud
- Ohio: Man from Ghana arrested for BEC and other frauds
- BEC scams hit Australian real estate market in increasing numbers
- Russian-speaking website recruiting English speakers and money mules for BEC scams
- Hits Singapore eye clinic; data on 73,000 patients lost
- Ragnarok ransomware shuts down; releases decrypt key
- Attack on police force in Northern Ontario
- Virginia: Two arrested for ATM skimming Romanians?
- Nigeria: Man convicted of lottery scam on Facebook directed to Americans, who were urged to buy gift cards
- India: Man arrested for running online lottery fraud