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FTC releases new data on romance fraud
- Reported losses of $547 million in 2021; up 80% from prior year
- Losses of $1.5 billion in the last five years; highest losses of any fraud category
- More than 1/3 say it started on Facebook or Instagram
- $139 million lost in crypto, showing increase in investment scams; 18% of victims involved in investment scam
- Big increase in scams involving those 18-29
BBB Studies. Here are links to the study topics of my studies: puppy fraud, romance fraud; BEC fraud, sweepstakes/lottery fraud, tech support fraud, romance fraud money mules, crooked movers, government imposters, online vehicle sale scams, rental fraud, gift cards, job scams, and online shopping fraud.
Virus ScamsFraud News Around the world
- Scammer posing as cop accidentally calls Oklahoma police
- US seizes $100 million in counterfeit Super Bowl goods
- Singapore police investigating 157 people for scams or money muling
- EFCC in Nigeria arrests 42 for internet scams including romance and crypto
- UK fraud losses up 174% last year
- Most common fraud in the UK last year was account takeovers
- Texas: Woman arrested over sophisticated scam claiming money for warranties on Cisco products
- Florida: Two brothers from Peru that ran call centers targeting Spanish-speaking victims in the US get seven years prison
- Russia shuts down three darkweb sites selling credit card information
- California: Last defendant in Mexican timeshare resale fraud get prison for two years
- Drunk woman on motorized suitcase leads cops on chase through Orlando airport
- Woman arrested after torching husband’s shed with a blowtorch
- Farewell to PJ O'Rourke; edited National Lampoon
FTC and CFPB
- California courts uphold FTC civil subpoenas to VoIP providers that sought information on illegal robocalls
- FTC settles with house flipping seminar operation, to pay $12 million
- California charges eight with unemployment fraud run from prison; got $25 million
- North Carolina: Three men sentenced to prison for PPP fraud; got $2.7 million
- Facebook sues two Nigerians for phishing scam
- UK: Prison for two who stole customer info from Netflix, Spotify and Apple and sold it for £140 million
- FBI warns BEC scammers are now using online meeting sites like Zoom to scam victims
- Quincy, Massachusetts lost $3.5 million to BEC scam
- Hits one of Europe’s biggest car dealers
- Shuts down California community college
- Attacks up in 2021; got $602 million in bitcoin
- Hits NFL’s San Francisco 49ers
- BBC: 74% of ransomware goes to Russia-linked companies
- Jamaican law enforcement task force steps up pressure on lottery scams
- Seven arrested in Jamaican for lottery scams
- Romance scammers increasingly turn to scamming victims through investments
- Australians lost $56 million to romance scams in 2021; up 44%
- India arrests two, including Nigerian man, for romance fraud