Deciding what to do with a dead friend or relative’s online presence is complicated and time-consuming but there are shortcuts
The Tax Lawyer has published Vol. 77, No. 1(Fall 2023):
Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan; Google Scholar) & Mohanad Salaimi (S.J.D 2023, Michigan), A New Framework for Taxing Cryptocurrencies, 77 Tax Law. 1 (2023)
- Emily Cauble (Wisconsin; Google Scholar), Taxpayers' Tax Election Regrets, 77 Tax Law. 77 (2023)
- Mary LaFrance (UNLV), The Future of Research and Experimentation After the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, 77 Tax Law. 129 (2023)
- Walter Schwidetzky (Baltimore), Real-World Reform of Partnership Allocations, 77 Tax Law. 169 (2023)
Charlotte Crane (Northwestern; Google Scholar), Identifying and Exploiting the Relationship between Legal Rules and Tax Systems (JOTWELL) (reviewing David Weisbach (Chicago; Google Scholar) & Daniel Hemel (NYU; Google Scholar), The Legal Envelope Theorem, 102 B.U. L. Rev. 449 (2022)):
With ‘God’s-eye view,’ secretive surveillance flights keep close watch on Russia and UkraineAP
Microsoft said on Friday that email accounts belonging to members of its senior leaders were infiltrated by a notorious Russian hacking group that had access to the systems for weeks before being identified.
National Consumes’s League: Ten Resolutions on Fraud for this year
Technology used by scammers. We all know that they can Spoof caller IDs, make fake web pages and passports, fake videos, and use ChatGPT and AI to aid their scams. Here is a 30 minute presentation by Wayne May from Scamsurvivors explaining where scammers get these tools and how they use them.
How Walmart’s Financial Services Became a Fraud Magnet; use of money transfers and gift card fraud at stores cost victims millions
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
Fraud News Around the world
- France: Prison for two who scammed elderly with claims that they had bedbugs and needed to pay to remove them
- India: Police bust tech support scam call center, arrest 25
- California: Ventura county police arrest man who called elderly and impersonated police
- UK meal delivery company Hello Fresh fined £140,000 for sending millions of spam texts and emails
- Three charged with operating a multimillion dollar pyramid scheme; two plead guilty; third defendant was living in Canada and arrested crossing the border into the US
- T-Mobile will begin to fine customer accounts responsible for spam text messages
- Scammers are now calling and impersonating the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre
- Northern Ireland consumers lost £23 million to scams last year
- Canada: Brampton man arrested in grandparent scam pretended to be police officer
- Canada: RCMP in Alberta arrests two for grandparent fraud
- Spain: Major police effort seizes more than €2 million worth of counterfeit sneakers
- Counterfeit US postage stamps are being sold online
- Japan’s Fujitsu promises to compensate 700 UK postal workers who were improperly convicted for theft after software malfunctioned
- Author of book “How to murder your husband” arrested for murdering her husband
- Man creeping through backyards with underwear around his neck claims it was “just exercise”
- Men in India scammed by “impregnating women” scam
- McAfee announces new tool to detect AI content; claims it is 90% accurate in spotting voice or video content
- Deepfake scam ad supposedly by Taylor Swift
- Baltimore: Man gets two years prison for PPP fraud
- Seattle: Man convicted of PPP fraud
- New Jersey: Man indicted for conspiracy to steal unemployment benefits; got $444,000
- Baltimore: Man and woman plead guilty to PPP fraud; got $300,000
- Chicago Inspector General finds 14 employees of Chicago Public Schools engaged in PPP fraud
- Atlanta: Prison for three that used ID theft to get covid unemployment and other government benefits: got $6 million
- Maine: Man gets five years prison for using identity theft to get Covid unemployment benefits
- Boston: Six charged in PPP fraud scheme; got $7.5 million
- Meta offers $51 million to Facebook users to settle privacy suits filed by four Canadian provinces
- Facebook was flooded with deepfake ads of UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak
- Seattle: Man from France gets three years prison for hacking companies and selling data; has to pay $5 million restitution
- Attack on US Navy shipbuilder loses information on 177,000
- Ransomware attacks Lutheran World Federation
- Major ransomware attack on government of Australia; affects 62 government departments; millions of records
- Nigeria: Man gets five years prison for crypto fraud
- Ukraine: Man arrested who hacked into servers and used them to mine crypto; got $2 million
- Tether is the crypto of choice for crypto romance frauds and scam centers in Southeast asia says UN report
- San Francisco: Man gets five years prison for crypto investment fraud; took in at least $60 million
- California: Turlock police arrest another man for ATM skimming
- Nigeria: Man gets ten years prison for ATM skimming
- Tennessee: Jamaican man gets 75 months prison for lottery fraud
- Jamaica: Two arrested in Montego Bay for lottery fraud
- Jamaica:Man pleads guilty to lottery fraud
- Singapore: Man faces charges that he handled money from romance scam victims and converted it to crypto
- UK: Man gets more than three years prison for romance scam; had been previously convicted of this crime
- Boston: Man (Nigerian?) who had been extradited from the UK pleads guilty to romance fraud and laundering victim money; handled at least $560,000
- Canada: Man wanted for romance fraud arrested at the Toronto airport