SCOTUS majority says Trump can ignore precedent if the majority doesn't like it
A 90-year-old precedent meant nothing to the majority allowing Trump to fire an FTC commissioner during litigation. This is no way to run a court, let alone a country.
Interpol operation involving 40 countries seizes $440 million from romance, BEC and other frauds
Nevada: Woman pleads guilty to scheme that mass mailed notices to victims telling them they had won and needed to send a small sum to claim prize; took in $15 million
Scams or Fraud – Is there a difference? I’ve heard some people believe that these terms have legal significance. To prove fraud, of course, requires that the perpetrator did it intentionally, that it was not a mistake for example. Normally that isn’t too hard to prove. I suspect that the term “scams” developed as a shorthand and suggests that they have a lesser significance. But for my purposes they are the same, and the term scams is not meant to downplay the seriousness of the activity.
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
- Microsoft seizes 338 websites linked in Nigeria-based phishing scam
- FBI arrests Nigerian man living in the UK when he traveled to the US; had used stolen credit cards to buy $100,000 of Broadway tickets
- Iowa: Four get prison for scam claiming that victim was to be arrested for missing jury duty; operated from a prison in Georgia
- Nigeria arrests 37 online scammers but kingpin flees and escapes
- FBI warns that scammers are impersonating the Internet Crime Complaint Center; sometimes claim they can recover money lost
- Ireland: Almost one third of young people have been approached to use their bank accounts as money mules
- Australia sues US-based chat widget Just Answer over deceptive use of subscriptions
- St. Louis: Woman gets 93 months prison for acting as a money mule for Nigerian scammers
- Boston: Man charged with PPP fraud and depositing stolen and altered Treasury checks
- New Jersey: Man gets 41 months prison for PPP fraud; got $3.2 million
- Boston: Man convicted of PPP fraud; got $836,000
- West Virginia: Two plead guilty to PPP fraud
- Sacramento: Man pleads guilty to ID theft to get unemployment benefits; tried to get $1.5 million
- Minnesota: Man indicted for PPP fraud; got $975,000
- 60 from India that were rescued scam compounds to be repatriated from Cambodia
- Thailand: Seoul Police arrest 24 for romance and other scams; stole $15 million from victims in South Korea
Bitcoin and Crypto Fraud
- Canada shuts down crypto exchange operating illegally and seizes $40 million in crypto
- Thieves in London steal phones in person to drain crypto wallets
- Crypto hacker loses $50 million to phishing scam
- Massive ransomware attack cripples European airports
- New Jersey: UK man arrested, part of Scattered Spider ransomware network; responsible for $115 million in ransom payments
- Attack freezes data of sheriff's office in parish that covers New Orleans
- Ransomware group claims to have stolen internal documents from BMW
- Attack shuts down school system in Michigan for three days
- Denver: Nigerian man gets 71 months prison for romance fraud wherehe took at last $1.6 million
- Idaho: Nigerian man extradited over sextortion of young boys
- Cincinnati: Man (Nigerian?) pleads guilty to laundering $2 million from romance scam victims
- Malaysia: Police arrest 24 in raids on call centers operating crypto romance frauds targeting China and Japan