Night Owls Had More Brainpower in Large UK Survey Bloomberg. :
Older adults who self-identified as “evening people” scored better on cognitive tests than those who identified themselves as “morning people,” results published yesterday in BMJ Public Health showed. The study used data from more than 26,000 people — with an average age in their 70s — out of the UK Biobank, a UK Medical Research Council and Wellcome Trust health research database that surveys about a half-million volunteers across the UK.
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US Treasury releases money laundering risk assessment
- Fraud is now top reason for laundering
- Crypto romance fraud most common
- Now tops BEC fraud
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
- France and Spain arrest five Chinese men who were laundering fraud money
- Australia sees 129% jump in victim losses by those who claim they can recover money lost to fraud – for a fee
- Washington State AG settles case with plastic surgeon over fake reviews; $5 million fine
- Canada: RCMP in Manitoba arrests man for grandparent fraud when he came to victim’s house for second batch of money
- Nigeria indicts 113 of the 127 arrested at a “yahoo party”
- Cincinnati: Customs seizes counterfeit Botox and Ozemic
- Over the last three months Nigerian banks have fired 35 people because they were involved in frauds
- Boston: Man pleads guilty to making counterfeit social security and green cards
- Drunk man steals identity and yacht “because he wanted to meet some pirates”
- Ohio police chief fired for pot; claim he “reeked of weed”
- FTC loses in court in case alleging Wal-Mart let crooks use its systems to get fraud money; reject FTC attempt to use the telemarketing sales rule to get restitution, case can proceed for the FTC to seek injunction
- FTC sues NGL app over its anonymous messaging service; alleges a host of law violations, including recurrent billing, claims about AI content moderation
- CFPB sues Fifth Third Bank for several violations, including illegal auto repossessions; to pay $20 million fine
- New Jersey: Man indicted for PPP fraud; got millions
- New York: Man pleads guilty to unemployment fraud scheme that got $1.6 million
- North Carolina: Man gets seven years prison for PPP fraud; got $2.9 million
- Virginia: Woman with 15 previous fraud convictions gets five years prison for PPP fraud, ID theft, and unemployment fraud
- Chinese scammers at compound in Cambodia have 3000 captives from India; women forced to make calls in the nude for scams
- UN article on scam call centers that kidnap workers; says there are 400 of them in the Philippines alone
- Family of Cambodian prime minister involved in scam compounds
- Hits New Zealand’s largest retailer of fitness equipment
- Attack shuts Patelco credit union; 500,000 affected
- Hits Monroe County, Indiana
- Attack on Florida Department of Health
- Hits National Health Lab in South Africa
- Massachusetts: Four Romanians in the US illegally charged with ATM skimming
- California: 7th man (Romanian?) arrested Turlock for skimming