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DOJ seizes $112 million in crypto from crypto investment scamsUK announces arrest of 299 for romance and other frauds
FBI, Europol, take down dark web market for stolen credentials such as passwords and bank accounts, identities stolen with bots; 119 arrested; Dutch police have site to see if your ID was stolen
Department of Transportation announces nationwide crackdown on crooked moving companies
Fraud 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, free trial offer frauds, job scams, online shopping fraud, and crypto scams
Fraud News Around the world
- GameStop stores seeing many victims buying Steam gift cards; the scams that ask for them
- New Jersey: Two men from India arrested for tech support scam when they visited victim in person to collect money
- Philadelphia :Auto mechanic pleads guilty to installing counterfeit air bags he got from China
- 14 year old boys from Nigeria being trafficked to fraud operations in Sierra Leone, Ghana, and Liberia and forced to learn and conduct internet frauds; beatings and starvation common
- Utica, NY: Man arrested for Craigslist rental scam
- Singapore: Man arrested for selling counterfeit goods on line
- Britain: Scams are 41% of all crimes in England and Wales
- Nigeria: 18 convicted of internet fraud
- Sri Lanka: Police arrest 39 Chinese citizens for online account fraud
- Police in the Ukraine arrest gang that claimed to sell goods online with phishing scams and then stole credit card numbers of victims; took in $4.3 million
- NFTs using NFC chips may help solve sales of counterfeit goods
- Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre warns scammers are sending text messages showing the real number of the Canada Revenue Agency
- Canadian woman in custody for Ontario grandparent scam now wanted by Windsor police for another grandparent scam
- Texas: More than 13 years prison for ringleader of gang that created fake passports of victims with large bank balances and used them to withdraw money from victim accounts
- Driver at traffic stop hands police a “get out of jail free” card
- Man steals school bus, puts dead deer inside it
- At trial for robbing a convenience store the defendant claimed it wasn’t him; when clerk testified defendant said he should have shot him.Oops.
- FTC sends $45,000 in initial payments to those who purchased DreamCloud mattresses based on false Made in USA claims; more payments to follow
- CFPB sending $4.7 million in refunds to victims of student aid scam
- FTC chair Lina Khan refuses to meet with Elon Musk
- CFPB sues couple who ran payday lending business for hiding money to avoid paying $40 million in restitution from previous court order
- Nigeria’s EFCC charges man with fraud for using stolen identities to get unemployment benefits in the US
- Alabama: Couple charged with PPP fraud; got $1.7 million; used it for plastic surgery, luxury vacations
- North Carolina: Third man pleads guilty in PPP loan fraud conspiracy
- Florida: Former state prison guard pleads guilty to PPP fraud
- St. Louis: Man pleads guilty to PPP fraud; also bought several new cars using fake documents
- Those selling carbon offsets may well be scammers
- Georgia: Man gets nearly six years prison for ID theft to get unemployment benefits in five states; got $3.3 million
- Detroit: Man pleads guilty to use identity theft to get covid unemployment benefits; got $1.6 million
- Scammers are now sending emails claiming to have stolen data and claiming a ransomware attack that was never made, and demanding money
- Two attacks on Lumen Technologies
- Hits Australian casino company Clop Resorts
- Attack on large Alabama school system
- Nigeria: Man gets one year prison for crypto investment fraud; ordered to repay money to Australian high commissioner on behalf of victim
- Toronto Police Service recovers most of $400,000 stolen in a bitcoin investment scam
Retired FTC veteran attorney Terry Winslow dies of heart attack