Trump ‘Standing Order’ to Declassify Not Found by DOJ, Intelligence Agency
Bloomberg, Jason Leopold: “A “standing order” that former President Donald Trump has claimed authorized him to instantly declassify documents removed from the Oval Office could not be found by either the Justice Department or Office of Director of National Intelligence.
The disclosure by the agencies was made in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed last August by Bloomberg News, which sued ODNI and the Justice Department’s national security division for a copy of Trump’s so-called standing order — if one existed. Trump insisted that he had such a declassification order after the FBI found top secret materials at his Mar-a-Lago home last year. He has since been charged in the case by Special Counsel Jack Smith, making him the first former president to face federal allegations of criminal conduct…”
FTC updates Guides on Endorsements and Reviews
Miami: Nigerian man extradited from the UK gets 82 months prison for mailings from Spain claiming elderly had inherited money and had to pay fees to get it
India: Delhi police arrest five for tech support fraud aimed at the US; used popups and phone numbers posted on search engines; told victims their money was at risk and they needed to put in into a “safe” account with scammers
Small business administration says losses to PPP fraud in the US may be $200 billion; 20% of all money used for the loans
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, fake check fraudand crypto scams
Want to see Taylor Swift? BBB warns that it got 21,000 complaints about ticket fraud last year, a big increase. Be VERY careful about where you buy tickets
Fraud News Around the world
- North Carolina: Woman charged for selling fake documents, such as social security numbers and drivers licenses, on Facebook
- Michigan: State warns that victims are getting letters pretending to be from the State and demanding payment of debts they don’t owe
- AARP on scams affecting immigrants
- Singapore: Seven men arrested for acting as money mules for a variety of scams
- Google sues scammer over 14,000 fake reviews
- UPS says hackers got access to its shipping tools and are sending texts that are very individualized and that ask for additional fees
- Department of Transportation says that at least 18 moving companies with revoked licences continue to operate
- Harvard scholar who studies honesty found to have fabricated his findings
- Minnesota man behind bars after Skittles attack on restaurant patrons
- FTC resolves case with New England clothing accessories company over Made in the USA claims
- CFPB settles case against ACI for processing $2.3 billion in mortgage payments that consumers did not authorize
- FTC settles case with Publisher’s Clearinghouse for $18.5 million over deceptive techniq
- Georgia: Man gets 38 months prison for PPP fraud; got $4.5 million
- Miami: Four charged with PPP fraud, ID theft, credit card fraud
- UK: Ten in gang get prison for using government covid loans to launch £1.5 million drug business selling cocaine and heroin
- New York: AirBNB magnate charged with PPP fraud; got $565,000
- Baltimore: Man gets 14 months prison for PPP fraud
- MOVEIT flaw and ransomware result to loss of data on 3.2 million people in CALpers retirement system
- Exposes data of 45,000 employees and students of New York public schools
- Ukraine raids and closes a dozen call centers targeting Europe and Asia for investment frauds stealing crypto
- Ukraine cyber police and Canadian law enforcement bust two call centers in Ukraine that were calling Canadian victims, pretending to be legitimate crypto platforms, installing programs that supposedly allowed them to add funds to victim wallets; used that to rob victims; several arrested
- Scotland: Two men arrested for cypto scam; got $5.5 million
- Texas sheriff does search on Bitcoin ATM where victim had deposited sum, returns money to victim, and gets sued by machine owner
- South Korea arrests three, charges 64, for $100 million Ponzi scheme that supposedly used blockchain to identify dog noses
- Nevada: fourth man convicted and gets 81 months prison for gas station skimming fraud; got $1.5 million
- Tampa: Man gets four years, 3 months prison for ATM skimming
- Canada: Vancouver police arrest man for romance fraud; got $200,000 from victims
- New Mexico: Nigerian man indicted after extradition from Hungary; charged with romance fraud and also with phishing and installing malware to monitor victim email and steal money from financial transactions
- Los Angeles: CFTC sues man for crypto romance fraud; got $1.3 million in crypto from victims
- Nigeria arrests fake Senator for apparent romance fraud; also impersonated FBI agent; got €5.7 million
- Nigeria sends two men to prison for romance fraud