IRS is mailing at least 4 million prepaid debit cards with stimulus money on them
Coronavirus
- Washington State adopts new verification steps to help stop theft of unemployment benefits by Nigerian scammers; $120 million recovered last week
- Dept of Transportation issues enforcement notice telling airlines they must grant refunds
- FTC sends 50 more warning letters to companies over virus claims
- Wired: More on Nigerian gangs stealing unemployment benefits
- Bank of America discloses that it may have lost data in uploading paycheck protection plan applications
- Seattle: software engineer charged after fraudulent attempts to get virus small business loan of $1.5 million; criminal complaint here
- UK: scammers are calling families of those killed by virus, claim they need money for funeral director to get credit card info
- Australian hospital workers end up with counterfeit masks
- Canada warns of text messages asking people to click a link to get their Canada relief fund money
- Canada finds 1500 fake websites impersonating government agencies about virus issues
