Establishment Democrats And Progressives Can Agree On 1 Thing: Haley Stevens Is A Traitor
Establishment Democrats And Progressives Can Agree On 1 Thing: Haley Stevens Is A Traitor Stevens announced a last-minute endorsement of Republican Mike Rogers over Democrat Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan’s U.S. Senate race on Sunday.
North Carolina: Dual US/Ukrainian man pleads guilty to running a massive fraud money laundering operation; had 15,000 money mules in network; at least $10 million stolen from hacked US bank accounts
DOJ announces results of major international effort to fight frauds concentrating on Nigeria and Ghana last week; dozens arrested; 3.7 million Meta accounts removed; over 100 victims trapped working in scam call centers rescued
Nonexistent Pets. People looking for a puppy or kitten often begin their search online. But crooks steal cute photos and advertise them for sale online, often for less than real puppies sell for. Those who agree find that there are additional costs at each stage, claiming they need to pay for special crates, shots, airport fees etcetera. But the pets don’t exist and never arrive. See my original study on this here.
Tips: Do a reverse image search of pet. And get the seller to connect on zoom with a copy of today’s version of the local newspaper. Petscams.com is a not for profit that is a great place to research and report these frauds
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
- Fresno: Man (Nigerian?) gets one year prison for laundering fraud money he then sent to China, Nigeria, and elsewhere; handled $5 million
- Wisconsin: Man from India gets 84 months prison; acted as a courier for fraud that impersonated law enforcement and told victims needed to keep their money “safe;” personally picked up more than $1 million
- UK: Woman gets more than four years prison for making and selling £500,000 worth of counterfeit designer goods on Facebook
- Vermont: Canadian man gets 33 months prison for grandparent fraud; must pay $256,000 restitution
- Hong Kong Police arrest man over phone scam where he impersonated customer service of online sites and claimed needed money to provide refunds; made 24,000 calls in one week
- Indiana: Postal worker pleads guilty to stealing $34 million worth of mail for fraud
- New study looks at the increasing number of money mules at various financial institutions
- Bank of America fined $1.2 billion for failing to file Suspicious Activity report on $5 billion of transactions
- Spain: Four arrested for vacation rental fraud that made at least €53,000
- FTC sends $15.8 million in refunds to victims of Cash Advance App Cleo AI over deceptive claims
- FTC settles with Auto Outlet Greenway over deceptive prices offered online
- FTC sues and shuts down online service that claimed it could identify companies and help victims of sextortion
HumorBEC FraudBenefit Theft
- Brooklyn: Woman gets four years prison for false returns as a tax preparer and $1 million PPP fraud
- Maryland: Man charged with fraud in fake Covid testing; got $100 million
- Los Angeles: Man gets five years prison for PPP fraud; got $800,000
- Los Angeles: Man gets 3.5 years prison for PPP fraud; got $14 million
- Detroit: Woman pleads guilty to PPP fraud; got $3.2 million
- FTC announces raid on scam compound in Ghana; 130 arrested
- Malaysia arrests 44 at scam center impersonating police from India; claimed needed to keep money “safe;” 33 of those arrested from Pakistan
- New Guinea shuts down call center that had moved there from Cambodia
- Japan extradites Russian man to Germany over ransomware activities
- Attack hits Japanese Cloud company IDC Frontier
- Ransomware group claims it hit MoneyGram
- New report finds that 84% of attacks now use AI