Thousands of pelicans flock to NSW's central west as an 'extraordinary' event unfolds
An eclectic group of talented Indigenous Australian women are the cover models for the May issue of Vogue Australia.
26-year-old model Charlee Fraser, 25-year-old actress Magnolia Maymuru, 17-year-old model and TikTok star Cindy Rostron and 47-year-old model Elaine George posed for the cover of the iconic fashion magazine, sharing the story of their careers and lives with Gunai writer, Kirli Saunders.
Four Indigenous women grace Vogue Australia’s May issue
Humans Were Actually Apex Predators For 2 Million Years, Evidence Shows.
FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center releases new data on Business Email Compromise Fraud
- Attempted fraud and actual losses worldwide of $43 billion between 2016 and 2021
- Funds from BEC fraud go to top two locations of Thailand and Hong Kong
- Then to China, Mexico, and Singapore
- Increasing use of crypto; either direct to an exchange or a mule who receives funds and then sends it by crypto
Thought of the week: Fraud gangs. Law enforcement has tended to go after scammers individually or by the type of scam. But we should realize that this is organized criminal activity, and perhaps we should bring in experts who have dealt with the Mafia, and apply some of that expertise to this area. Enforcers in Canada have done great work studying the Nigerian Black Axe organization, but serious efforts could surely be applied to groups such as Romanians, Jamaican lottery scammers, and groups in India.
Justice Louis Brandeis on free speech: “If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.”
BBB Studies. Here are links to the studies I’ve written for the Better Business Bureau: 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, online shopping fraud, and crypto scams
Fraud News Around the world
- Pennsylvania:Man from Cameroon gets 21 months prison for pet fraud
- Congress looking at the use of online payment app Zelle and its use by scammers, victims are left with no right to contest charges
- EFCC in Nigeria arrest 30 for internet crimes
- Police arrest man in Victoria, Canada for puppy fraud
- Europol report studies uses of deepfake technology; warns that it could become a staple for scammers
- WalMart froze $4 million of gift cards it thinks were bought for scams; wants to return that money to victims; fights gift card fraud
- Scammers answer security questions for on line accounts better than the account owners
- Scammers now hitting smart TV’s when victims try to sign up for streaming services; fake popups; fake registration sites or phone numbers at top of search engine results
- Los Angeles: Man who ran a telemarketing investment fraud and who fled to Costa Rica 21 years ago extradited for sentencing
- Florida man buys and crashes a Ford GT sports car because he did not know how to drive a manual transmission
- Drunk driver driving down stairs says he was “following GPS”
- Volunteer deputy sheriff arrested for selling drugs from patrol car
- Police seek woman on riding lawn mower towing trailer full of stolen goods
- FTC proposes amending its Telemarketing Sales Rule to include deception in calls to small businesses; possibly to also cover tech support scams
- New government study of employee satisfaction shows sharp decline among FTC staff
- CFPB settles with California-based student loan and general lending operation over illegal fees
- CFPB settles with American Express over illegal garnishments; company to pay $10 million
- DOJ settles FTC case against battery company over Made in USA claims; to pay $106,000 civil penalties
- UK sets up new fraud squad to take on scammers that took £4.9 billion in bounce back virus loans to small businesses; 11% of the funds for the loans were for fraud
- Alabama: Man indicted for PPP fraud; got $220,000
- New Orleans: Former Amtrak employee pleads guilty to PPP fraud and also to unemployment benefits scam
- Florida: Man extradited from Croatia for PPP fraud; got $7.2 million
- Seattle: Nigerian pleads guilty to unemployment fraud in Washington and 17 other states; got $600,000
- Brooklyn: Man pleads guilty to PPP fraud and tax evasion; got $183,000
- Final exams cancelled at Austin Peay State University after ransomware attack
- Stops classes at Battle Creek community college in Michigan
- 7 out of every 10 businesses in India had an attack in 2021
- Major attacks on governments in Costa Rica and Peru
- Hackers hit NFT Bored Ape Yacht Club
- UK’s Which? reports on investment scams using name of investment expert Martin Lewis
- FBI warns of dramatic increase in young men tricked into extortion scams by people they meet online
- New Mexico: Nigerian extradited to the US to face romance fraud charges
- Private information from gay dating app Grindr has been for sale for years
- New Jersey: Man from Ghana gets 14 years prison for romance fraud; worked with group in Ghana