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Appeals court rules police do not need a search warrant for bitcoin transaction records
Check that Zoom invite: Phishing scams now pretending to be schedulers
Virus benefit theft
- Illinois suffers 121,000 cases of theft of unemployment benefits
- Criminal charges against nine for fraud in PPP small business virus aid
- Maryland may have $500 million in fraud with virus unemployment benefits; 47,000 fake claims identified
- DOJ charges five more people with fraud in efforts to get small business PPP loans; took in $4 million
- Arkansas man pleads guilty to bank fraud in seeking $8 million in PPP loans
- Ohio virus unemployment fraud losses may be $200 million every week
- Miami: Nine charged with PPP fraud; defendants from Florida and Ohio
- Many getting letters with California virus benefits they did not apply for
- New Phishing campaign pretends to be from Small Business Administration; seeks banking details
- At least 700 in Canada have had ID thieves apply for CERB virus benefits in their names
Coronavirus
History review and recommendation of the week: One of the best things I’ve read in a long while is Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond. Where did civilization first develop and why? Why did European diseases ravage native Americans instead of their diseases wiping out new settlers? Fascinating.
BBB studies: They can all be found here. There are links below to several topic areas, and there are also studies on puppy fraud, tech support fraud, romance fraud money mules, apartment rental, crooked movers, government imposters and rental fraud
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