Virus benefit theft
- Virginia man indicted for fraud in applying for disaster loan; got $190,000
- DOJ makes arrests in New York and Texas over fraudulent paycheck protection program fraud
- Maine Department of Labor puts hold on unemployment cases over concerns scammers engaging in ID theft to steal benefits
- Massachusetts also worried about Nigerians stealing unemployment money
- 2/3 decrease in unemployment applications filed in Washington State suspected to be result of scammers
- Massachusetts reviews 150,000 unemployment applications in effort to avoid fraud
- Pennsylvania has 53,000 to 58,000 bogus claims for virus payments; now sending paper checks instead of direct deposit
- Washington state has recovered $300 million in unemployment benefits stolen by scammers
- Agari study of Nigerian fraud gang Scattered Canary, now believed to be behind theft of massive amount of unemployment benefits
- Unemployment benefit scam also hits Michigan; local people not getting payments
- National Consumers League warns of theft of unemployment benefits, how to check to see if they are and where to complain
- FTC explains what to do if scammers apply for benefits with your name
Coronavirus
- Google warns that scams in India are sending emails that seem to be from the World Health Organization to get victim google login info
- Ransomware hitting Italians claims to be contact tracing app
- Hollywood executive arrested for fraud in getting PPP small business loan that he kept for himself
- US Customs seizes half a million counterfeit masks, testing kits, drugs that were virus-related in March and April
- UK seizes millions of counterfeit face masks at Heathrow
- Kenya arrests two for theft of virus relief funds
- Scotland: People getting calls from someone impersonating police and demanding fines for violating lockdown regulations
