Act of treason: Kim Jong Un orders North Koreans to stop killing themselves as suicides rise
FTC warns that scammers are in business claiming to help people with student loans
Australia forms new joint law enforcement effort to tackle online investment fraud
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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
- Los Angeles: Two men arrested for scam offering to sell victim timeshares; took in $4.5 million
- New Jersey: Man arrested for tech support scam
- India: Police bust three call centers offering cheap loans; arrest three
- Toronto police arrest 19 who were stealing point of sale credit card charge devices from stores at night and making refunds to themselves
- UK: Two arrested for “Hi mum” text messages fraud trying to scam mothers
- Singapore: Thirteen arrested for acting as money mules
- San Diego: Romanian woman pleads guilty to theft of food stamp benefits; part of organized crime gang from Romania
- Germany: Three Israelis, two others, get prison for binary option investment fraud; group got €77 million
- UK has seized record breaking £87 million of counterfeit goods this year
- India: Scammers hitting poor people who try to sell their kidneys on Facebook; ask them to pay a fee for donor card that is not needed
- Two from Windsor, Ontario arrested for grandparent fraud
- France warns of increase in puppy and kitten scams
- Burglar breaks into house; steals bananas only
- Kim Jong Un orders North Koreans to quit killing themselves
- Woman arrested after driving drunk to job interview at sheriff’s office
- FTC brings second case against Smoke Away for stop smoking claims; gets $7.1 million restitution and $500,000 fine
- FTC amends complaint against WalMart over fraud in use of MoneyGram services
- FTC announces proposed rule to ban fake reviews and testimonials
- Tim Muris asserts FTC competition policies hurt innovation
- Biden nominates two republicans to be FTC commissioners
- CFPB to return $3.5 million to victims of student loan scams
- Atlanta: Man gets five years prison for PPP fraud; got $2 million
- Florida: Former Miami police officer pleads guilty to PPP fraud
- Philippines: Police and commandos raid fraud compound and release 2700 kidnapped workers
- Taiwan: Man gets over six years prison for luring job seekers into kidnapping to Myanmar compounds doing fraud
- New York: Nigerian man extradited from the UK pleads guilty to BEC fraud
- Puerto Rico: Four (Nigerians?)indicted for laundering money for BEC, romance, and PPP fraud
- Los Angeles: Jury finds two guilty of stolen identity refund fraud
- IRS warns of direct mail claiming people are owed a refund; ploy to seek personal information
- Hits Russian telecom firm
- Attack on New Hampshire school district
- Taiwan chip maker refuses to pay $70 million ransom
- Hits Canadian oil giant Suncor
- UK warns that law firms are increasingly targeted
- Hits Japan’s largest port; delays cargo ships
- There have been 33 attacks on US hospitals so far this year
- Crypto Ponzi schemes cost $7.8 billion last year
- Canada: Two teens arrested; impersonated Coinbase customer support and stole $13.4 million in cryto
- Guyana: Man arrested for romance fraud and gets out on bail
- NBC: Crypto romance scams resulting in calls to suicide hotlines
- China: Police arrest man for romance fraud; tried to flee by climbing out window and hiding on ledge