New study on how the pandemic has affected online fraud and policing in Europe
Europol releases 2021 organized crime threat assessment; cyber crime is flourishing
FBI says it has fixed error that allowed someone to send 100,000 emails from their system
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Fraud News Around the world
- Spain arrests man for vacation rental scam
- EFCC in Nigeria arrests forty for internet fraud
- Ireland: Prison for two Nigerians who engaged in unemployment fraud; took in €183,000
- Amazon wins suit against Washington State tech support company and India affiliate for impersonating Alexa app to steer victims into calling scammers
- Ghana police arrest 26 Nigerians for online scams
- Canada: Bank blames customer who fell for fake cheque job scam
- UK arrests three over scam calls impersonating banks
- New York:DOJ charges three, one Canadian, with mailing deceptive prize notices to seniors
- Michigan woman pleads guilty for trying to have husband killed at fake Rent-A-Hitman website
- Thief tries to rob same bank two days in a row
- Woman wakes up to find burglar napping in her spare bedroom
- CFPB sues pawnshops for loans to military that were higher than allowed under the Military Lending Act
- Opinion: FTC efforts to get around Supreme Court ruling are troubling
- WSJ: Lina Khan faces turbulent start as FTC Chair
- Police arrest Staten Island man for engaging in ID theft to steal $1.2 million in unemployment benefits
- Canada: Organized crime intentionally targeted pandemic benefits
- Long Island doctor pleads guilty to PPP fraud; got $3 million; bought a yacht
- St Louis: Two indicted for PPP fraud
- Boston: Doctor settles civil suit over PPP loan; to repay $500,000
- California: Man sentenced to 51 months, more than four years, for $1.8 million PPP fraud
- Los Angeles: 7 members of gang sentenced to prison for PPP and EIDL fraud; one gets 17 years
- FBI, UK, and Australia warn that Iranian government-sponsored actors are exploiting computer systems, including ransomware
- Hits UK fertility center with 1700 patients
- Russian man arrested in the Netherlands for laundering ransomware money; to be extradited to the US
- Crypto scams increase; kinds of scams involved
- Canada: Ontario teen arrested in $46 million bitcoin scam; used SIM swap to get verification code sent to victim
- Oklahoma: Romanian convicted of ATM skimming
- Pennsylvania: Romanian man here illegally gets 42 months prison for ATM skimming