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Australia issues fraud report for 2019
- Top three: BEC, investments, romance scams
- $634 million lost; 30 % increase from 2018
Virus benefit theft
- Identities of 150 Syracuse, New York teachers used to apply for unemployment benefits
- IRS warns crooks are sending people counterfeit stimulus checks; claim an error and you need to send them “overpayment”
- Boston: man arrested for trying to get $13 million in virus relief loans
- Illinois also seeing ID theft being used to get unemployment benefits
Coronavirus
- UK warns public is getting text messages that a virus testing unit will visit their homes; you must stay in a separate room; fear that this is a dodge to burglarize
- China sentences head of pharmacy chain to 15 years for selling counterfeit 3M face masks there
- New Orleans: US customs seizes 2000 counterfeit face masks with designer logos
- Victims who bought fake virus vaccine to get refunds after lawsuit by Washington state AG
Ransomware in Canada poses as government virus tracing app
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