Top Stories
- To pay $150 million; most to be refunded to victims
- Many leads used for sweepstakes/lottery fraud
- Sold information on 30 million people
- Charging document here
EU warns it is already seeing forged virus vaccination certificates
Competition Bureau in Canada settles with scam “free trial offer” company; to pay $15 million
Virus Benefit Theft
- Detroit: Three charged with fraud in unemployment benefits
- Virginia: Man pleads guilty to PPP fraud; took in $2.5 million; bought himself a Cessna
- Massachusetts recover $252 million from fraudulent unemployment claims
- Nevada man charged with getting $1.9 million by PPP fraud
- Georgia: Six charged with PPP fraud; got $3 million
- More than a million cases of virus unemployment fraud in Illinois
- IRS provides advice for those who didn’t actually receive unemployment benefits due to ID theft, but who reported to have taxable income
- New York stops $5.5 billion in virus unemployment fraud
- West Virginia: Woman pleads guilty to fraud in virus unemployment benefits
