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November 27, 2025Sign up for weekly reports or pass along to a friend or colleague
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Fraud News Around the world
- Pennsylvania AG settles with collectible company over negative option practices and gets $750,000
- India busts tech support call center calling the US; 20 arrested
- India: Mumbai police arrest 17 at scam call center that called Indians during the day for stock market fraud; ran tech support against US victims at night
- Customs seizes $2.5 million in counterfeit Rolex watches in Louisville
- India: Delhi police arrest 877 in 48 hour effort to tackle call center fraud doing a variety of scams
- UK: Three get prison for selling motor vehicles online, and collecting payment for them; vehicles didn’t exist; used money mules to handle funds
- New book studies the counterfeiting industry in China; gets inside industry
- BBB updates my study on Pet Fraud; complaints down some but still a big problem; French Bulldogs and dachshunds top the list
- Google says its lawsuit against phishing scams has stopped texts claiming unpaid road tolls
- Massachusetts: Man from India arrested and charged; victim responded to email claiming he had made a purchase he had not; called number and talked to Defendant who pretended to law enforcement and victim was charged with crime; got victim to transfer money
- Miami: South African man convicted of passport fraud and aggravated identity theft
- Manhattan DA indicts two for PPP fraud; got $1.7 million
- Baltimore: Nigerian man gets 30 months prison over conspiracy to get unemployment benefits
- New Orleans: Woman gets 41 months prison; prepared 110 fraudulent PPP applications that got $1.1 million
- Texas: Co-founder of company that aided PPP applications pleads guilty to PPP fraud; got $63 million
- New Orleans: Man gets 84 months prison for PPP fraud
- Orlando: Jury finds man guilty of PPP fraud
- Scranton: Two siblings indicted for ID theft to get PPP loans, tax refunds, and other government benefits; got $400,000
- Los Angeles: New Hampshire man indicted for theft of California unemployment benefits; got $700,000
- Myanmar military seizes a second huge scam compound; arrest hundreds
- Myanmar says it arrested 1600 at scam compounds in five day effort
- US sanctions Russian service that hosted websites used by ransomware groups
- Group that laundered money for ransomware bought its own bank in the UK to handle funds