Baker Fraud Report – News you can use
January 30, 2020
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- Both were “gateway” carriers; allowed internet based calls to get access to the US phone system
- Both knew about the problems with their clients
- At least one seems to have done the same for Canada and Australia
- Money paid by victims went to crook in the US, who made cash deposits at US banks to pay Defendants
- Responsible for hundreds of millions of calls
- Social Security Administration impersonator calls
- IRS imposter calls
- Immigration calls
- Tech support
- Advance fee loans
- Court complaints linked at bottom of DOJ release
- Map shows number of calls per state by Defendant Tollbooth
FTC announces top scams reported to them in 2019
- Imposter scams were the biggest category; impersonating both businesses and government agencies
- Most frequent imposter scam was social security; with 166,190 reports to FTC and median losses of $1500
Atlanta, Georgia: Eight sentenced to prison for roles in India-based IRS and payday loan collection fraudPolice in Indonesia arrest three; infected e-commerce sites worldwide with malicious code to steal credit card numbers entered on them
