Social-Media Account Overseen by Former Navy Noncommissioned Officer Helped Spread Secrets WSJ. And not sufficiently anti-Russian to boot!!
FTC announces increased efforts to stop robocalls coming from outside the US
- Identifies US gateway carriers that transmit calls into the US phone system
- Issues warnings
- Sues those who don’t stop
- 22 of 24 companies contacted have stopped these calls
- FTC calls this effort “Point of no entry”
- Effort does not cover text messages. Why?
Fraud News Around the world
- Singapore: Man arrested for home rental scams
- New Jersey: Seven charged, three of them plead guilty, in telemarketing fraud to timeshare owners; claimed had buyers or renters for units; also claimed that they could get money back from other scams on the victims
- Manchester, England: Police take on major effort hitting 200 stores selling counterfeit goods, say “this is the end of counterfeit street”
- Missouri: Florida man pleads guilty to using money stolen from bank accounts to buy WalMart gift cards worth $12,000
- UK: Three men get combined 24.5 years prison for binary option investment fraud
- India: Man who applied for legit job and was kidnapped and forced to be a scammer in Burma is rescued
- Boston: Man used stolen identities to get debit and credit cards and to buy new cars that he shipped overseas; gets more than five years prison; losses between $550,000 and $1.5 million
- Louisville Customs seizes $4.41 million of designer jewelry coming from Hong Kong
- Banking App Zelle says it will now repay some victim money lost to scammers, but will not say when this will apply
- Styx dark web marketplace opened in January; provides tools for financial crimes such as credit cards, forged documents, SIM cards
- New paper examines the structures of cybercrime groups; looks at small, medium, and large groups and how they are organized
- Seattle: Woman gets three years prison for selling counterfeit goods online; got them from China and Hong Kong
- Australia: Man arrested for decade long rental fraud; offered homes online, collected rent and deposit and then stopped contact
- Los Angeles: Art dealer pleads guilty to selling counterfeit high end artworks of Jean-Michael Basquiat; one was sold to a Florida museum
- Arizona Mom says crooks used AI to impersonate voice of her daughter in fake kidnapping scam asking for $1 million
- UK: Parliament Committee criticizes Action Fraud and its response to online crime
- 82 year old Japanese man arrested for driving without a license; says he had one 60 years ago
- 78 year old Missouri woman with two prior convictions for robbing banks hands teller note says “I don’t mean to scare you;” has cash stewn on floor of car
- Supposed glitch in Find My iPhone app is directing angry strangers to home of Texas dad
- Analysis of the proposed FTC rule on recurring subscriptions
- FTC and Florida AG sue Chargebacks911; supposedly reversed unauthorized credit card charges, but instead blocked attempts; covered for free trial offer/subscription trap companies
- Belgium: Brothel owner gets eight months prison for stealing coronavirus unemployment benefits from sex workers; got €240,000
- Former Miami police officer pleads guilty to PPP fraud
- Puerto Rico: Six indicted for PPP fraud; got more than $9 million
- Georgia: Five current and former police officers convicted of PPP fraud; got more than $3 million
- Florida: Two brothers each get more than two years prison for PPP fraud; got $1.6 million
- Arizona: State sentences man to 7 years prison for theft of unemployment benefits; also defrauded Colorado
- Sacramento: Woman gets one year prison for calling Social security, impersonating others, and claiming she had a new bank account to deposit benefits into; stole #234,000
- BEC fraud in the US up 81% in the last year
- Port of Seattle Department of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion loses $570,000 to two BEC scams
- Malaysia: 21 million people had their cell numbers stolen and sold; 73% of all cell numbers in the country
- Hackers steal personal information from the Royal Dutch Football Association
- Hackers steal frequent flyer miles from Ontario Aeroplan
- New York: Former investment banker arrested for crypto investment scheme
- How they caught a bitcoin scammer, and how groups can now trace crime through the blockchain
- Decentralized exchange SushiSwap hacked; at least one customer has lost $3 million
- India; Nigerian man, three others, arrested for romance scams
- FBI warns of “explosion” of boys suffering extortion from overseas gangs often found at gaming sites; compromising photos and videos
- FBI warns of companies claiming to help sextortion victims – for a healthy fee; can’t really help, steep cost
- Boston: Nigerian man extradited from the UK pleads guilty to phishing and romance scams