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Los Angeles: Criminal charges against Nigerian man, Ray Huspuppi, who was expelled from the UAE
- Laundered hundreds of millions from BEC scams
- Social media influencer; flaunted wealth; famous in Nigeria
Ukraine arrests 20 over ransomware scam; laundered $42 million
First ransomware prosecution in years?
Virus benefit theft
- Los Angeles: Man indicted for $1.7 million PPP small business loan fraud; he has fled the country for Belarus
- Las Vegas woman charged with $1million in fraud in small business loan scam
- Washington DC man arrested after fraud in obtaining $2 million in PPP loans; used money to buy a yacht
- UK arrests woman for fraud in trying to get virus small business loans; seize £115,000 in bitcoin
- Salt Lake City: Man charged for fraud in applying for small business PPP loan
- San Mateo County, California: 21 arrested at county jail using ID theft to apply for unemployment benefits; took in at least $300,000
- New York: Taiwanese man charged with fraud in applying for small business PPP virus loans; took in $7 million
- Arizona investigating more than a million unemployment applications for possible fraud
- Ohio stopping $200 million/week in fraudulent unemployment payments; Nigerian Scattered Canary group involved in such fraud there and in 14 state; criminal investigation underway
- Coronavirus
- Isis terror group sold counterfeit N-95 masks to finance their efforts
- Australia finds 55% increase in identity theft during the pandemic
- FTC finds identity theft is now #1 scam in the US during pandemic
- Free trial offer scams now claim to be selling virus prevention/cure products
Full report here
