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DOJ announces creation of nationwide Fraud Detection Center

FBI investigating online company that advertises scans of 153 million driver’s licenses from the US and Canada

Europol announces that the US, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria have taken down a botnet that has affected 11 million computers and that has been running for twenty years

Canada sees fraud losses in the first six months of the year reach $351 million; nearly half of that is investment fraud (meaning crypto romance fraud)

Does shutting down huge scam compounds eliminate fraud?  Its hard not to be happy that these massive centers that kidnap people and rob people across the world are being close down.  But my experience is that when large fraud centers are closed a raft of small ones quickly emerges.  And former employees and managers have developed the skills and expertise to run these new operations.  It looks like these frauds are simply moving to different countries or setting up shop clandestinely in smaller units. So the fight against fraud has to continue.

Full report here