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Singapore police arrest 329 for romance fraud, other frauds, and for being money mules
New York: Scammer who was based in Dubai gets 50 months prison for two frauds
- First was using phone spoofing and voice altering to get information from customer service centers at banks to get access to bank accounts of victims in the United States.
- Second, laundered money for BEC fraud
- Other defendants in this case from Canada, the UK, Georgia in the US
EU issues Organized Crime Threat Assessment
- They do these once every four years
- Full assessment here
Virus Benefit Theft
- Michigan sees 10,000 fraudulent unemployment claims in just one week
- Colorado man arrested for fraud in PPP and two other programs
- Ithaca, New York: Man arrested for PPP and EIDL fraud; got $150,000
- Michigan: Five men arrested for PPP fraud
- Wisconsin man pleads guilty to PPP fraud; got $600,000
- Oklahoma couple plead guilty to PPP fraud
- Arkansas man pleads guilty to PPP fraud; got $500,000
- Virginia: Man gets ten years prison for fraud; had an online business offering help to small businesses in applying for government loans; got over $ 1 million in advance fees
- Sacramento, California: DA charges seven with unemployment benefits fraud; six did this while in prison, two for murder
- Fraud in Washington State unemployment exceeds $647 million
- Washington State missed signs that unemployment benefits were being stolen by Nigerian Scattered Canary gang; State may have lost $1 billion to fraud
- Croatia arrests man wanted in Florida for unemployment benefits fraud; took in $7.2 million
