Canada: CBC reports that Grandparent frauds in Canada have ties to the Italian mafia
UK police take down major website that helps users engage in phishing scams; dozens arrested worldwide
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 fraud and crypto scams
Fraud News Around the world
- Canada: Ontario Provincial Police arrest 14 from Quebec for grandparent fraud
- Washington: Jamaican man pleads guilty to online debt relief scam; got $550,000
- Canada: Alberta police arrest man who went to victim’s home to pick up funds from grandparent fraud
- Jamaica: Chinese man arrested; $200 million in counterfeit goods seized
- Texas: Two (Chinese?) arrested for gift card fraud; altered cards in store so they could steal money when they cards were purchased
- Canada: RCMP warns victims are losing big sums to callers pretending to be Chinese police
- San Diego: Canadian man (Chinese?) arrested for scam that began as tech support and then got a call call supposedly from bank saying victim needed to withdraw and “safeguard” her money; lost $1.5 million in gold
- Nigeria: Owner of scam training center gets ten years prison
- New York Times: Welcome to scam world
- 74 year old woman who robbed a bank is believed to be a scam victim
- Canada: Quebec man pleads guilty to grandparent fraud in Saskatoon
- Woman wheels elderly man into bank to get a loan – but he was dead
- Woman calls police over a bad batch of meth
- Florida man asks Police if it is OK to crack a beer during his arrest
- FTC and Pennsylvania lose at trial against business directory operation
- FTC sends $5.6 million in refunds to ring doorbell customers over privacy violations
- New Jersey: Three indicted for PPP fraud; got $5 million
- Texas: Final defendant in gang that stole Covid unemployment benefits gets 74 months prison; must pay $531,000 restitution
- Kansas City: Man gets 9 years prison for PPP fraud; got $500,000
- Sri Lanka repatriates eight from Myanmar scam centers
- BBC: Trapped inside a Myanmar scam call center focusing on romance fraud
- IRS warns public to include crypto income on tax returns
- India arrests man over huge bitcoin Ponzi scheme; seize $11 million in assets
- New York: Jury finds hacker guilty over stealing $110 million from crypto exchange Mango Markets
- Massachusetts: Cranston police arrest man for ATM skimming
- Iowa: Man (Romanian?) get five years probation for ATM skimming
- Michigan: South Carolina man charged with online extortion of teenage boy; got him on tape and threatened to expose him as pedophile; victim committed suicide
- North Carolina: Woman, former US army soldier, gets 40 months prison for laundering money for romance frauds; much money went to Ghana
- Ghana social media influencer extradited from the UK to the US for romance fraud
- Singapore. Female romance scam victim gets 7 weeks jail for acting as a money mule
- Japan: Woman gets nine years prison for romance fraud
- CBS Sunday Morning: first in a series on romance fraud
- CBS: Romance scammers turn victims into money mules
- Germany: Police arrest 11 Nigerian Black Axe gang members for romance fraud