Monday, July 01, 2024

Ghana arrests 11 Nigerians for internet fraud

Calm Down — Your Phone Isn’t Listening to Your Conversations. It’s Just Tracking Everything You Type, Every App You Use, Every Website You Visit, and Everywhere You Go in the Physical World. “So don’t even worry about it.”


Canada: Toronto man shoots and kills two who he believed were scammers that took him for $1 million

 
NYT: IRS suspends payments from Covid employment retention tax credits; 90% of claims may be fraudulent
 
Clerk at Chevron station saves 84 year old woman who was feeding money into a bitcoin ATM; victim thought she was talking to bank security person; had been close to sending $40,000
 
Brooklyn: Four Nigerians charged for BEC and romance fraud and money laundering; handled $50 million; one to be extradited from France

Why does Facebook permit a 70,000 member group that even calls itself Fraud University, and that teaches fraud, continue?
 

Fraud Studies: Here are links to the studies I’ve written for the Better Business Bureau: puppy fraudromance fraud; BEC fraudsweepstakes/lottery fraud,  tech support fraudromance fraud money mulescrooked movers, government impostersonline vehicle sale scamsrental fraud, gift cards,  free trial offer frauds,  job scams,  online shopping fraud,  fake check fraud and crypto scams
 
Fraud News Around the worldHumor FTC and CFPBArtificial Intelligence and deep fake fraudVirus Benefit Theft IRS and tax fraudRansomware and data breachesBitcoin and cryptocurrency  ATM SkimmingJamaica and Lottery Fraud
 
Romance Fraud and Sextortion