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November 11th, 2022category: Feature StoriesBy a Biometrica staffer This midterm election season, along with the state of the economy, the country's crime rate has been under the scanner. Forty percent of U.S. registered voters said crime is an extremely important issue when it comes to their...
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September 15th, 2022category: Feature StoriesBy a Biometrica staffer Fraud accounted for 30.1% of all organizational offenses during the near-30 year period between fiscal 1992 and 2021. Environmental offenses was the second largest offense category at 24%, according to a report published late last month by the...
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May 4th, 2022category: Feature StoriesBy a Biometrica staffer In a previous piece, we gave you a quick look at contractor fraud. We examined what it is, looked at common signs, and gave you a few tips to protect yourself from falling prey to such scams. In...
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January 18th, 2022category: Feature StoriesBy a Biometrica staffer An overwhelming majority (over 90%) of all money mule transactions identified through the European Money Mule Actions are linked to cybercrime, the Europol says. What does that mean? It means a large number of law-abiding citizens in the...
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December 10th, 2021category: News Reports
By a Biometrica staffer A two-day global online virtual assets conference — co-organized by INTERPOL, Europol, and the Basel Institute on Governance — concluded with a call to action on better protecting the world’s financial systems by increasing multi-sector cooperation to strengthen...
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December 3rd, 2021category: Background Check ABCsBy a Biometrica staffer Only yesterday, Dec. 2, Europol announced the results of a massive international law enforcement operation that targeted money mules. The operation, codenamed EMMA 7 (i.e. the European Money Mule Action), involved 26 countries including the U.S., and led...
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September 24th, 2021category: Background Check ABCsBy a Biometrica staffer There's been a large increase in the number of sextortion complaints made to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Bureau's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) warned at the start of this month. As of July 31, 2021,...
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September 17th, 2021category: Background Check ABCsBy a Biometrica staffer Between 2015 and 2017, two ringleaders of a gang in New Orleans allegedly staged at least 100 accidents in a scam that was targeted at defrauding trucking and insurance companies. As part of a federal investigation into intentional...
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August 27th, 2021category: Background Check ABCsBy a Biometrica staffer Winning the lottery is normally associated with excitement and happiness. And, let's be honest, it's something many of us have wished would happen to us and make us wealthier overnight. Yet, it's wise to not let that dream...
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August 12th, 2021category: Feature StoriesBy Aara Ramesh On Wednesday, Aug. 11, a federal jury of seven men and five women was impanelled in New York in the trial of disgraced R&B superstar Robert Kelly (known professionally as R. Kelly) on racketeering and sex trafficking charges. This...
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August 4th, 2021category: Feature StoriesBy a Biometrica staffer Towards the end of June, as part of an investigative series, FreightWaves asked many transportation professionals whether "double brokering" is legal. The most common answer? It's complicated. Double brokering, which we will explain further through this piece, has been...
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July 23rd, 2021category: Background Check ABCsBy a Biometrica staffer On Wednesday, July 21, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued a warning urging parents to be aware and on the alert for criminals trying to steal their personal and financial information, as families across the country are starting to...
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July 16th, 2021category: Background Check ABCsBy a Biometrica staffer After someone has been evacuated from their home or been impacted in any other way by a natural disaster, the last thing they'd want is to fall victim to something else. Yet that's what happens to many Americans...
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July 9th, 2021category: Background Check ABCsBy Deepti Govind Millions of elderly Americans become the victims of some kind of financial fraud or internet scam each year. Just last year, for instance, senior citizens in the country lost $1 billion to fraud. That's an increase of roughly $300...
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Besieged Maverick John McAfee Found Dead Just Hours After Spain Authorized His Extradition To The US
June 24th, 2021category: News ReportsBy Aara Ramesh In the late evening of Wednesday, June 23, John David McAfee, whose name is virtually synonymous with anti-virus software world over, was found unresponsive in his cell in a prison near Barcelona. He was being held there pending extradition...
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May 19th, 2021category: Feature StoriesEven as Bitcoin, the world’s largest digital token, and other cryptocurrencies continued their dramatic free fall Wednesday, we thought it would be a good day to remind people as to why Bitcoin remains a perfect tool for regulators, investigators, banks and nonbank...
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May 4th, 2021category: Feature StoriesBy a Biometrica Staffer Every now and then, on Tuesdays, we’ll delve into the rather arcane world of casino regulations and compliance, look at some of the more frequently asked questions that apparently come up with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN),...
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April 20th, 2021category: Feature StoriesBy a Biometrica Staffer According to the American Gaming Association’s (AGA) Commercial Gaming Revenue Tracker, 2020, the year that life came to a virtual standstill on account of the coronavirus pandemic, marked the first market contraction for the U.S. gaming industry since 2014...
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April 8th, 2021category: Feature StoriesBy Charlotte Spencer A Mississippi businessman was indicted January 12, 2021 for hoarding and price gouging PPE. Many who heard of such practices have found them distasteful, but did not realize they were actually illegal too. So does that mean there ought...
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March 30th, 2021category: News Reports
By Anand Vasu Pope Francis has said that laws must reflect “the equality of all members of the church,” indicating that further reforms of the Vatican City penal code were likely, especially to deal with financial crimes. In a March 27 meeting...
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February 25th, 2021category: News Reports
By Anand Vasu Leroy King, 74, of Dickerson Bay, Antigua, the former chief of Antigua’s Financial Services Regulatory Commission (FSRC) was sentenced on Feb. 24 to 10 years in prison for his role in connection with a $7 billion Ponzi scheme involving...
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February 4th, 2021category: News Reports
By a Biometrica staffer If you think scammers also took a break during the Covid-19 pandemic, think again! On Feb. 4, the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) said it received more than 2.1 million fraud reports from consumers in 2020. Imposter scams were...
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December 4th, 2020category: News Reports
By a Biometrica staffer A man from Maryland pleaded guilty to his role in a scheme that involved diverting hundreds of thousands of dollars meant for the reconstruction of Afghanistan for his own use instead, the Department of Justice said in a...
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December 2nd, 2020category: News Reports
By a Biometrica staffer Interpol issued a global alert to law enforcement across its 194 member countries warning them to gear up for organized crime networks targeting covid-19 vaccines. The group’s Orange Notice warned the international community to prepare for possible infiltration...
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November 30th, 2020category: News Reports
By a Biometrica staffer An Indian national was sentenced to 20 years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for his role in operating a scam that defrauded US victims out of millions of dollars between 2013 and 2016. Hitesh...
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October 2nd, 2020category: News Reports
By a Biometrica staffer Two leaders of ‘Team Xecuter,’ one of the world’s most notorious videogame piracy groups, have been arrested and are in custody facing charges in Seattle, the US Department of Justice said in a statement. The group grew so...
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September 25th, 2020category: News Reports
By a Biometrica staffer A man from Georgia has been sentenced to 5 years in prison followed by three years of supervised release for running a Ponzi scheme that ensnared over a hundred victims, including college students, the US Department of Justice...
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September 15th, 2020category: News Reports
By a Biometrica staffer A Texan woman has been taken into custody on allegations of defrauding the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) of more than $1.9 million in forgivable loans, the US Department of Justice said in a statement. The Small Business Administration...
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September 10th, 2020category: News Reports
By a Biometrica staffer Former New York Jets wide receiver Joshua J Bellamy was arrested in Florida and charged for his role in a scheme that involved defrauding the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). The National Football League (NFL) player and his associates...
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September 3rd, 2020category: News Reports
By a Biometrica staffer An attorney from New Jersey was arrested on charges of defrauding the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) by obtaining about $9 million in loans, the US Department of Justice said in a statement. Jae H. Choi, a licensed...