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Three Men Arrested in Connection to $722M Cryptomining Scheme
Law enforcement arrested three men for their participation in a cryptomining scheme that defrauded investors of $722 million. On December 10, 2019, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey ...
18 Members of ATM Skimmer Gang Arrested — Mostly Romanian
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 ...
FBI Fraud Arrests by Field Office, 2018
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 ...
Operation ReWired arrests 281 Business Email Compromise criminals
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 ...
Los Angeles: Stories of the BEC Victims (part 2)
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 ...
Lauded Nigerian Entrepreneur may be a BEC Yahoo Boy
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 ...
The Next Miami Operation WireWire Case: Alfredo Veloso
In June of 2018, we blogged about a series of cases that the Department of Justice announced as "Operation: WireWire." In particular, we wrote three pieces about the "South Florida Cases" where ...
School district fails to reclaim $120,000 wired by bank to scammer
A school district in Indiana which had $120,000 transferred from its bank account after its email account was hacked, has failed in attempt to reclaim the cash dismissed. The problems for Lake ...
Business Email Compromise: Putting a Wisconsin Case Under the Microscope
Clement Onuama and Orefo Okeke were arrested on November 1, 2017 in the Western District of Texas after receiving a complaint and warrant from the District of Wisconsin, that the pair were ...
74 (Mostly Nigerians) Arrested in Business Email Compromise Action
Operation Wire Wire Cases Operation Wire Wire was announced June 11, 2018 by the Department of Justice. This Operation led to the arrest of 42 people in the United States and 29 ...
