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The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Tuesday unsealed charges against eight individuals in an alleged widespread digital advertising fraud that reportedly used botnets to give the appearance of billions of humans looking at online ads. https://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/418575-doj-unseals-charges-in-alleged-massive-online-ad-fraud

Mark Blum served his country for eight years in the Air Force. When he left the military, he had high hopes the skills he learned as a logistical advisor would help him land a new career in civilian life. Instead, he says, he was taken in by an elaborate online employment scheme that has financially ruined him. Blum posted his profile on LinkedIn, which led to an email from a woman identifying herself as Betty Blake from Blue Line Network. “The very first contact with me was, 'We’re looking to hire ex-military people because of their attention to detail,”' Blum...

THE HAGUE (AFP) - Police in Amsterdam arrested more than 100 West Africans Saturday as part of a seven month long investigation into Internet fraud, they said. Spokeswoman Sita Koenders told AFP that 111 people were arrested for being in the Netherlands illegally and "now we must investigate in what way they are implicated in Internet fraud." Eight of those arrested were carrying false papers and they have been prosecuted. The others were detained and then released unless there were any extra charges against them, the police said in a statement. In October, Dutch police launched Operation Apollo to fight...

23-year-old University of New Mexico student, arrested in August for allegedly trying to cash a $36,000 fraudulent check, is suing a city bank, one of its employees, the city and four Albuquerque Police Department officers. Zachary Painter claimed at the time of his arrest that he was the victim of an Internet scam involving out-of-state car sales. Yet he was arrested, thrown in jail where he was intimidated and harassed by other inmates, and hit with felony fraud charges, the lawsuit says. The District Attorney's Office dropped all charges against Painter in January.

I need help (more than you know)for a entity to contact on a fraudulent credit card charge from ECOST.com

A renowned psychiatrist from UC Irvine was duped into squandering at least $1.3 million of his family's fortune on a Nigeria Internet scam, according to a lawsuit recently filed by his son. ...Louis Gottschalk, a neuroscientist, is the founding chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at UCI College of Medicine. He gained national prominence by announcing in 1987 that President Reagan had been suffering from diminished mental ability as early as 1980. He came to this conclusion by using the Gottschalk-Gleser scales, an internationally used diagnostic tool he helped develop for charting impairments in brain function, to...

DUMMIE ALERT! DUMMIE ALERT! DEBACLE STILL ONGOING! AFTER SEVERAL HOURS, ANDYITES STILL HAVE NOT ANSWERED 3 SIMPLE QUESTIONS! THIS SIDE: COOL, CALM, AND DIRECT! THAT SIDE: EMOTIONAL, UPSET, AND NAME-CALLING! AVOIDING 3 SIMPLE EASY-TO-ANSWER QUESTIONS!

I was doing our weekly checkbook balancing this afternoon, when I noticed a $9.00 charge on 12/15 from something called VISA-WLI*RESERVATIONREW800-7327031 CT. It rung a bell, and I remembered seeing a similar charge last month on 11/15. I had not really thought much about that previous charge because my new wife (HairOfTheDog) and I had merged bank accounts the previous week, and I had assumed it was a transaction she had performed and forgotten to write down, or some kind of bank charge related to the changes to our account. But we now saw that this was fishy, and knew...

Okay folks, need some thoughts on cyber crime. My struggling start-up company was the victim of some soul-less person who decided to use a stolen credit card and then download copyrighted information from our server. They have since contacted us with some extortion demands which we won't pay, based both on principle and poverty. Come up with $40K or they distribute the two reports out to the world. They sent it to 10 people tonight and copied the addressed to us. I've already filled out an on-line complaint with the FBI and I'm sure holding my breath waiting for them...

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Capitol Hill (CNSNews.com) - Pro-gun researcher John Lott of the American Enterprise Institute believes a liberal Internet activist is behind a website that falsely claimed to be operated by Lott when it first went online but now presents itself as a parody. The site's domain name registration was changed Friday, removing most - but not all - of the fraudulent information with which it was originally registered and adding details Lott believes may identify the site's operator. The registrant name for AskJohnLott.org is still listed as "Mary Rosh," a pseudonym Lott used in Internet chat rooms after he received harassing...

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NEW YORK — Sophisticated cyber-scammers are ripping off hundreds of online auction buyers and sellers through bogus escrow services in the latest variation of Internet fraud. Buyers of expensive cameras, computers and cars, including one man who paid $50,000 for what he thought was a new BMW sport-utility vehicle, have been taken in the auction hustle, which emerged on the Internet last fall. Similarly, sellers of expensive jewelry and other items, including a man who sold a used Rolex Presidential watch for $14,000, also have been victimized. The polish on the scam includes elaborate Web sites with names like Premier-escrow.com,...

<p>NEW YORK  — The Securities and Exchange Commission is to file suit against Lehman Brothers (LEH) Internet stock analyst Holly Becker and her husband, Michael Zimmerman, on charges of insider trading based on her firm's research, cable television channel CNBC reported on Wednesday.</p>

<p>Almost 10,000 Americans were suckered out of $17.8 million last year in online scams, according to the first annual report by the Internet Fraud Complaint Center.</p> <p>One-third of almost 50,000 complaints received at the center's Web site during 2001 involved online fraud. The median financial loss for those scammed was $435.</p>