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Argentina: Police arrest ten for using credit card numbers to make cards, cloning, and document forgery; arrest ten; international effort across South America and includes Bulgaria
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: Quebec police arrest three for data breach of Desjardins and theft of $8.9 million
- Sacramento: Chinese man gets a year in jail for stealing and replacing Target gift cards where money from purchases went to crooks
- Canada: Man (Indian?) arrested for apartment rental fraud; advertised on Facebook
- Virginia: Man gets 12 years prison for robbing letter carriers of mail storage bin arrow keys
- Australia: Police arrest woman for Facebook Marketplace fraud; took money for high end goods but never delivered
- Houston: Nigerian man gets three years prison for international inheritance fraud
- US seeing increase in Columbian drug dealers depositing drug money into ATMs
- Harrisburg: Man from India arrested in tech support fraud; callers claimed to be federal agents levying “fines” that had to be paid in gold, arrested when he went to victim home to collect
- Nike and Converse file suit against counterfeit sale sites; 100 web sites, 267 social media accounts
- BBB international expels Quebec BBB office
- Boston: Man gets ten years prison for creating pop up screens for tech support fraud; also for selling prescription drugs on line
- Man calls 911 to ask if cops want to buy any pot from him
- Cops pull over drugged up driver and ask for license; he hands them meth, fentenyal and $3000
- FTC has DOJ file suit against Adobe for making it hard to cancel subscriptions
- CFPB gets order against reverse mortgage financing company for failing to deal with problems
- Texas: Man gets two years prison for unemployment benefit fraud; got debit cards and sent them to Canada; got $2.3 million
- Michigan: State charges woman with PPP fraud
- Pennsylvania: Man gets 13 months prison for theft of unemployment benefits
- Madison: Jury convicts man of PPP fraud
- San Francisco: Restaurant owner gets 2.5 years prison for PPP fraud; got $3.5 million
- New Jersey: Man pleads guilty to EIDL fraud; got $150,000
- Virginia: Man pleads guilty to PPP fraud
- Boston: Man pleads guilty PPP fraud; got $50,000, which he spent at casinos
- Iowa: Man pleads guilty to PPP fraud
- Brooklyn: Four Nigerians arrested for BEC and romance frauds that took in more than $50 million
- Birmingham: Man pleads guilty to BEC fraud; sent proceeds to Nigeria
- Virginia: Jury convicts Nigerian man over BEC fraud
- Boston: Nigerian man pleads guilty to laundering money for BEC fraud; got $6.5 million
- New Jersey: Tax preparer gets 57 months prison for stolen identity refund fraud; got $4.4 million
- Fresno: Man pleads guilty to stolen identity refunds fraud; got $2.3 million
- Attack on UK National Health Service
- Closes down Cleveland city hall
- Hits Victoria Racing Club in Australia
- Spain arrests UK man who was member of Scattered Spider ransomware/fraud gang
- Attack on country government of Grand Traverse, Michigan
- Hits Hawaii bus system
- Wisconsin: Former Olympic athlete from Moldova and another man arrested for ATM skimming
- Cicero, New York: Man arrested for ATM skimming
- Dallas: Three men (Romanians?) arrested for ATM skimming
- Nigeria: Man gets six months prison for romance fraud against American woman
- Nigeria arrests two men over video extortion of Australian teen who killed himself
- Virginia man kills himself after crypto romance fraud
- UK romance fraud victims lost £100 million last year
- Taiwan man gets five years prison for romance fraud against Chinese