While I was on the train today I was checking email and found that I had received an interesting phish. It was sent to an email i haven't used in years that apparently still fowards:I certainly didn't want to miss my "incomming" fax, so I of course needed to click ... Read More

This morning while I was on the Exercise Bike at the UAB Rec Center I got a LinkedIn message from a colleague I haven't spoken to in a couple years.That was actually the SECOND funny thing about my LinkedIn profile this morning. The first one was that, since I'm a ... Read More

Ronayerin Ogolor has pled guilty to causing $900,000 in losses to at least 13 Romance Scam victims. Ogolor, a 50 year old naturalized citizen from Nigeria, lived in Kansas City, Missouri when he committed the various fraud schemes. After "falling in love" via ChristianMingle, Facebook, or Hangout.com, Ogolor would begin ... Read More

The darkweb child sexual exploitation video site, "Welcome to Video", first came onto Law Enforcement's attention as a result of a case in the UK, where a geophysicist Matthew Falder was arrested. When the National Crime Agency was looking into his hard drive, they found he had been a member ... Read More

DOJ Press Release: 18 Members of International Fraud and Money Laundering ConspiracyThe Southern District of New York brought charges on 18 people for their involvement in an ATM Skimming ring that planted hundreds of skimming devices in at least 17 states and stole more than $20 Million dollars. Those charged, ... Read More

Each year, crime data geeks look forward to the publication of the CJIS "Crime in the United States" report. On September 30th, the FBI was able to share the Uniform Crime Report information for 2018, describing information about Violent Crime, Property Crime, Homicides, and Arrests gathered from most of the ... Read More

Operation: ReWired announced on September 10, 2019 On September 10, 2019, the Department of Justice announced that 281 arrests related to Business Email Compromise had been made, with 74 of those arrested being in the United States. It will take some time to track down the names of all of ... Read More

In my last blog post, Los Angeles Court charges 80 Nigerians with BEC and Romance Scam Crimes, we laid out the background of a major BEC investigation and telling the stories of six victims, but the court documents shared the details from thirty cases.Footage from CBS Los Angeles of the ... Read More

Bank of America, BBVA Compass, CalCom FCU, Capital One, Citibank, Citizens Bank, Comerica, Chase Bank, PNC Bank, Regions Bank, SunTrust, TD Bank, US Bank, and Wells Fargo Bank were among the financial institutions who were scammed by the 80 Nigerian criminals named in a Los Angeles indictment unsealed this week ... Read More

Obinwanne Okeke: The EntrepreneurObinwanne Okeke, 31 year old CEO and Founder of Invictus Group, is frequently lauded as a success story. At age 28, Forbes Africa featured him in their June 2016 issue under the title "Africa's Most Promising Entrepreneurs: Forbes Africa's 30 Under 30 for 2016".Although the 30 are ... Read More