Trump explodes at CNBC repoter who dares question his popularity (video)
The Panama Playlists is a collection of the Spotify accounts of celebrities, politicians, and journalists (JD Vance, Pam Bondi, Marc Andreessen, etc). “The Panama Papers revealed hidden bank accounts. This reveals hidden tastes.”
The scam is that DPS – which runs the Parliamentary Library research function for politicians – has refused to answer a second tranche of questions put by Senator David Shoebridge in relation to an employee suing Australian citizens with (or without) their knowledge and imprimatur.
Man from Costa Rica gets 15 years prison for sweepstakes fraud; calls from Costa Rica claimed to be from government agencies; no one had won; collected over $4 million; operated more than 15 years
New FTC Data Spotlight that looks at business and government impersonation frauds that want you to turn over funds to keep them “safe”
Part Nine on Fraud gangs; China: We know that China has organized crime groups, despite its totalitarian ways. Fentanyl precursors are made in China and then sold to Mexican drug cartels, for example. And most of the counterfeit goods sold around the world come from China, and are massively sold on the internet. In fact, the largest topic of fraud complaints to the BBB are about counterfeit or nonexistent goods sold this way. China, or Chinese gangs, are mainly responsible for the massive scam compounds in Thailand, Cambodia, and the Philippines that kidnap young people and force them to scam. These compounds grew out of Chinese-led online gambling “casinos.” Finally, there has been a noticeable trend in the use of Chinese couriers being used to pick up victims money for India-based tech support frauds. Chinese people also are actively involved in gift card fraud. And note that China seems to have devised ways to take and process credit cards (for sales of counterfeit goods online and for online gambling) despite efforts by MasterCard and Visa to fight this illegal use of their cards.
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
New FTC Data Spotlight that looks at business and government impersonation frauds that want you to turn over funds to keep them “safe”
- Reports by older adults losing $10,000 or more quadrupled since 2020
- Those who lost $100,000 or more increased sevenfold
- One third of the money lost was sent in crypto
- These scams also begin as tech support frauds
- $690 million reported lost to this type of scam last year
Part Nine on Fraud gangs; China: We know that China has organized crime groups, despite its totalitarian ways. Fentanyl precursors are made in China and then sold to Mexican drug cartels, for example. And most of the counterfeit goods sold around the world come from China, and are massively sold on the internet. In fact, the largest topic of fraud complaints to the BBB are about counterfeit or nonexistent goods sold this way. China, or Chinese gangs, are mainly responsible for the massive scam compounds in Thailand, Cambodia, and the Philippines that kidnap young people and force them to scam. These compounds grew out of Chinese-led online gambling “casinos.” Finally, there has been a noticeable trend in the use of Chinese couriers being used to pick up victims money for India-based tech support frauds. Chinese people also are actively involved in gift card fraud. And note that China seems to have devised ways to take and process credit cards (for sales of counterfeit goods online and for online gambling) despite efforts by MasterCard and Visa to fight this illegal use of their cards.
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
- Kenya arrests Cameroonian man; wanted for scam selling nonexistent gold to Canadian investor
- California: Woman arrested in Thousand Oaks for advertising and “renting” properties she did not own
- India arrests 48 in July for a variety of cyber crimes
- WhatsApp shuts down 6.8 million accounts used by fraudsters
- UK: London police arrest seven for sales of counterfeit football goods worth £5 million
- FTC sends $743,000 in refunds to victims of student loan debt relief scam
- FTC settles with two companies that sold fake health insurance; to pay $145 million
- Atlanta: Jury convicts man of PPP fraud; got $3.4 million
- Chicago: Five indicted for PPP fraud that got millions
- Scranton: Man indicted for PPP fraud; got $850,000
- Delaware:Tax preparer gets 80 months prison for PPP fraud; got $9.1 million
- Detroit: Man from Beverly Hills charged with PPP fraud; got $3 million
- Buffalo: Man pleads guilty to $1.8 million PPP fraud
- Brooklyn DA indicts man for PPP fraud
- Florida: Postal employee pleads guilty to PPP fraud
- Scranton: Man gets four years prison for PPP fraud; got $2 million
- War between Cambodia and Thailand rose out of scam compound money and tensions
- Philippines raids crypto scam compound; arrest 27 Chinese
- Viet Nam arrests two Nigerians, 19 Vietnamese, for laundering money from BEC frauds
- Texas: Fifteen men (many Nigerians?) arrested for laundering money from BEC frauds; handled more than $2.7 million
- Boston: Man pleads guilty to ID theft to steal tax refund; got $810,000
- New York: Nigerian man extradited from France; hacked tax preparers to do stolen identity refund fraud; got $2.5 million
- Virginia: Canadian man gets one year prison for online theft of Nonfungible Tokens (NFTS’s) by hacking accounts of artists
- Tennessee: Man (Chinese?) arrested for bitcoin investment scam when he went to victim’s home
- Thailand: Police arrest German man for crypto investment scam that took an Australian police officer for $1.1 million
- India freezes $4.8 million that came from scam that impersonated website of Coinbase, captured passwords to the real site and stole money