The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Australians could be sitting on a small fortune - with new research revealing thousands of dollars worth of unwanted items could be collecting dust in the garage.
New research by online marketplace Gumtree found that savvy Australians stood to make $5300 by selling off old or unwanted items.
New research finds Australian households sitting on thousands of dollars worth of unwanted items
My new BBB in depth study on job scams released today
- Complaints up 27% from 2019
- 32% never get paid
- ID theft common; 24% of victims post their Social Security Number with their resumes
- Reshipping scams reported by 65% of victims
- Stolen credit card numbers used to buy goods, have them shipped to victims who repackage them and then them on;often to Russia
- Fake checks used in job scams;
- Losses to fake checks continue to grow; half in mystery shopper scams
EU Commissioner and US attorney General hold inaugural meeting to talk ransomware, transnational organized crime
Florida: Three from Peru get prison; ran call center in Peru that called US Spanish speakers and threatened arrest or deportation
Los Angeles: Telemarketer in toner scam gets four years prison; took in $126 million; defendant in previous FTC case
Atlanta: Nigerian scammer and partner who laundered stolen funds sentenced to prison
- Scammer hacked tax preparation firms and stole identities
- Used those to file bogus tax returns and sought refunds
- Also used stolen identities to get Washington State unemployment benefits
- Laundered through money orders
- Had people travel from Zambia to open bank accounts
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
- Woman arrested at Hawaii airport for fake vaccination card
- Police in Philippines crack down on fake vaccination cards; entry permits
- Turkey: Six arrested, including three nurses, in vaccine card scam
- Malaysia arrests man who claimed 14 relatives died of Covid to collect chartable aid; got donations on Facebook and Whats App
- Only 37% of fraud victims in Ireland tell their spouse
- Texas: Man pleads guilty to laundering money for international call center; hired ten to collect victims funds
- EFCC in Nigerian arrested 402 internet scammers in three months; gift cards most popular way to get money
- How Britain is being scammed out of billions
- New scam sends email telling people they have to unsubscribe from free trials offers; wants you to click on a link that installs malware
- University student in northern England gets five month jail for acting as a mule and collecting victim funds
- Upper middle class neighborhood in Lagos, Nigeria, home to many internet scammers
- Police in Spain bust gang of eight who engaged in vacation rental fraud; took in at least €70,000
- Lawsuit claims Facebook actively ignores deceptive ads by China scammers
- Man arrested for climbing atop Tulsa police station to “flag down airplane”
- Wealthy woman moons police
- Florida man arrested when he parked Lexus hanging over edge of pier
- FTC investigating why McDonald’s ice cream units are always broken?
- New Jersey man arrested for fraud; got state unemployment benefits
- Florida couple on probation for other activities indicted for PPP an EIDL fraud
- New York: Man pleads guilty to $4.5 million PPP fraud
- West Virginia man pleads guilty to unemployment fraud; was in prison when it began
- California: Former woman inmate gets 5 years prison for unemployment fraud
Ransomware
- Gangs target organizations over holidays and weekends
- Ireland disrupts ransomware operation
- Howard University in DC cancels classes after attack
- Apparently hits freight forwarder eCapitol
- Bitcoin ATM owners want input on regulation of the industry, 42,000 machines now in the U.S.
- SEC sues Bitconnect as $2 billion fraud
- SEC issues consumer warning about crypto scams
- Two Nigerians arrested for romance fraud in Delhi had over 100 victims
- Philippines tops in the world for reports of romance fraud; followed by Nigeria; Canada third
- Man arrested for romance fraud in South Africa
- India: Police arrest three who make use faces of victims to make deep fake porn videos of them and then demand extortion money
- Boston: Nigerian pleads guilty to romance scam
- New York: Army reservist sentenced to 46 months prison for laundering millions from BEC and romance fraud victims; worked with partners in Nigeria