The president texted Fox’s Greg Gutfeld with a disparaging message about co-anchor Jessica Tarlov, which was read on-air. (Fox News)
Trump declares war on Fox News on Election Day: 'Every question is a hit job'
Scientists are studying whether “many chronic diseases we treat as separate failures of separate organs may share one deeper problem: cells struggling to extract and use energy from food” (diabetes, Alzheimer’s, epilepsy, etc.)
An Italian farmer planted some decades-old seeds he found in his attic. Wheat with seven ears per stalk came up and the farmer found a reference to this type of nutritious, drought-resistant wheat in the Bible’s book of Genesis.
Dumpster Archeology. “Lew Blink’s passion for dumpster diving, his tenacity in connecting the dots, and his magnetic charisma as he unearths the secrets of others were a captivating lens through which to explore themes of privacy, waste…”
South Africa arrests and extradites six members of Black Axe gang to the US over romance fraud
WSJ Vigilante who spends his days finding fake job recruiters and fraud; mainly on LinkedIn
Tennessee: Ukrainian man convicted of ransomware fraud gets four years prison; was living in Ireland; got at least $150 million in ransom payments
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
- Sacramento: Postal worker gets year prison for stealing mail; mainly prescription drugs sent to veterans
- Wisconsin: Nigerian man gets four years prison for investment fraud; duped victims into classes supposedly on how to make money; got $2.7 million
- BBB releases study on how consumer interpret claim about the environmental attributes of their products
- Pittsburgh: Two men illegally here from the Dominican Republic plead guilty to large scale grandparent fraud
- Pennsylvania: Second man, Chinese, arrested for scam where he went to victim’s home to collect gold bars
- India raids three call centers targeting the US
- 17 Nigerian lawyers in the US disbarred for theft and misconduct
- Indiana: Man gets 15 months prison for forging Postal money orders
- Kansas: Leavenworth warehouse site tries to restore goods stolen and abandoned by fake moving company
- UK soap opera star arrested in Spain after he fled on charges that the ran a fraud on offering modeling agency jobs for more than eight years
- Los Angeles: Woman from Nicaragua pleads guilty to scam that impersonated lawyers and told Mexican time share owner that they could get money back; got $36 million
- The UK shut down 238,000 suspected mule accounts last year
- Fleetcor settles with the FTC in an administrative action over undisclosed fees it charged small businesses for gasoline card; to pay $100 million
- FTC to expand redress to victims of Amazon prime case
BEC Fraud
- Illinois: Woman gets ten years prison for BEC scam aimed at, at least, Georgia strawberry company
- Ireland: Nigerian man arrested for BEC fraud in the UK; got $23 million
- Houston: Former banker gets 50 months prison for PPP fraud; got $200,0000
- Kansas City: Two women charged with PPP fraud
- Vance announces suspension of 870,000 suspected of PPP fraud
- Harrisburg: Man gets 72 months prison for theft of unemployment benefits; worked with others in large scale fraud; got $46 million
- Philadelphia: Woman gets a year and day prison for PPP fraud; got more than a million
- Indiana medical school student pleads guilty to PPP fraud; got $325,000
- New Jersey: Man gets one year prison for defrauding social security disability; got $480,000
- San Diego: Twelve charged with fraud in home daycare centers that got $10 million
- North Carolina: City Councilman and daughters sentenced for PPP fraud; got $137,000
- Washington DC: Man from Singapore pleads guilty to crypto theft, was ringleader of a group that stole $245 million
- Los Angeles: Girlfriend of crypto fraudster “the Godfather” pleads guilty to tax fraud for not reporting $2.6 million she got
- St. Louis: Man who worked with Jamaicans on lottery fraud and got 20% captured after fleeing in 2018
- Jamaican head of their National Security Council announces that lottery fraud is a major issue
- Jamaican police shoot and kill lottery fraud suspect after being fired upon
- New York: Jamaican man extradited to the US for lottery fraud gets eight years prison; got more than $9 million

