A live radar of the aircraft above you. Tap a blip to see what it is. Enter a postcode, town, or city — anywhere in the world — or use your location, and see the aircraft overhead right now. Tap one to find out what it is. [h/t Tara Calishain]
Where are the Robocalls? I don’t think I’ve gotten a robocall in several months. That’s GREAT news. Are yours down as well? It may be that the telecoms really are working with law enforcement to shut these down. Remember that calls from outside the US must have a US-based service to transfer these voice over internet calls into the phone system. And they must have a way to display a Caller ID number, and usually must have a phone number for recipients to call back. Obviously this system should be something we can track. So whoever is working on this, thank you and great work! And maybe there could be more work done on spam text messages.
New BBB study looks at Artificial Intelligence used for customer service
- Businesses increasingly using it for chats, incoming calls
- Often unpopular with customers
- Complaints also note increase in scams using AI
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 survey finds 58% of people in the US encounter a scam every day
- India searches 80 locations, arrest two for “digital arrest” scams that impersonate law enforcers and claim victim’s need to keep money “safe”
- Florida: Chinese man gets 27 months prison; acted as courier for fraud against seniors
- Ohio police arrest man from India who went to collect money after the victim of a tech support scam was told that they had porn on their computer and must pay or it would be reported
- New York cracks down on sidewalk vendors; seizes $151 in counterfeit goods
- Viet Nam arrests 12 in ring that did a variety of transnational frauds
- To fight robocalls, FCC considers new rules tying phones to real people; would end burner phones
- Aspen Institute releases national strategy to fight fraud
- Australia fines online travel agency eDreams over failure to prominently disclose costs
- Ireland: Six get prison for impersonating police in calls to seniors; got £190,000
- Australia sues Amazon over allowing ads in Prime video; alleges unfair contract terms
- Boston: Man (Indian?) gets a year prison for laundering fraud money; kept 10%
- Customs seizes $54 million of counterfeit watches from Hong Kong in Louisville
- Boston: Two from Venezuela plead guilty to fraud in getting SNAP food stamp benefits; used food they got to stock their restaurant
- Arkansas: Woman gets 18 months prison for unemployment fraud claimed in several states; got $330,000
- North Carolina: Man pleads guilty to PPP fraud; got $171,000