Top Stories
FTC announces nationwide effort to tackle “phantom” debt collectors; collect money that is not owed
- This scam often targets people in real financial difficulties
- Over 50 actions by FTC and state/local partners
- Three new FTC cases; settlements of three previously filed
- Two CFPB cases
- Criminal cases announced as well
- Chart of cases filed here
Plans to expand and improve UK Action Fraud hotline
Virus benefit theft
- Riverside, California: Police investigating 200 cases of theft of unemployment benefits
- Pittsburgh: 20 inmates and accomplices charged in theft of unemployment benefits; 10,000 inmates nationally engaged in this scam
- UK watchdog agency warns of dangers in virus relief payments
- Massive problems and fraud in Ohio virus benefits
- Georgia loses $4 million to virus relief fraud
- Police in Burbank, California arrest six for theft of unemployment benefits
- North Carolina man charged with PPP fraud; sought $6 million; got $1.7 million
- Rhode Island: Man pleads guilty to PPP fraud
