Man sent to prison for selling data of 7 millions elderly Americans

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/man-sent-to-prison-for-selling-data-of-7-millions-elderly-americans/

#privacy #fraud #scam

#Somali #MAGA #Minneapolis #TrueCrime #Accountability #Immigration #bigotry #FuckICE #TrumpEpsteinCoverup #daycare #fraud #Manosphere

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An image with a solid blue background and white and yellow text, featuring the logo for the "Beer, Buds & The Big Sky Podcast" in the bottom left corner and the website "beerbudsbigsky.com" in yellow at the bottom. The text reads: "In case you missed it, the WHITE mastermind behind the Minneapolis daycare fraud, Aimee Bock, was sentenced to 42 years in prison yesterday. Yeah, the person behind the $250 million fraud was a white woman - not a Somali immigrant. Let that sink in."

#GiftArticle

How #PredictionMarkets & #Crypto Firms Steamrolled a #Watchdog Agency With Trump’s Blessings

Last fall, a high-stakes struggle unfolded inside the red brick walls of an obscure federal agency.

Three companies — each with ties to the #Trump family’s business empire — needed the Commodity Futures Trading Commission [#CFTC] to bless their ambitions in the white-hot field of prediction markets.

#law #business #oversight #regulation #fraud #kleptocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/24/us/how-prediction-markets-and-crypto-firms-steamrolled-a-watchdog-agency.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

#Apple blocked over $11 billion in #AppStore #fraud in 6 years

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/apple/apple-blocked-22-billion-in-fraudulent-app-store-transactions-in-2025/

#cybersecurity

The IRS paid Palantir $1.8 million last year to improve a custom tool designed to help the tax agency identify the “highest-value” cases for audits, collection of unpaid taxes, and potential criminal investigations. #taxes #fraud #IRS #Palantir

https://www.wired.com/story/documents-reveal-palantir-irs-contract-fraud-clean-energy-credits/

Bangkok Post: New online rules target scam adverts . “Thailand has introduced a new electronic transaction measure to require online social media platforms to strengthen identity verification of advertisers to filter out fraudulent ads.”

Investigators found that leaders of a prison gang in Puerto Rico were selling inmates drugs in exchange for voting for Gov. Jenniffer González-Colón, a longtime Republican.

After Trump’s election, prosecutors were told not to pursue charges.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-doj-puerto-rico-election-fraud-prison-drugs-votes?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #PuertoRico #USPolitics #Law #Legal #Fraud #Election #Prison #Vote

RE: https://vebinet.com/@kristin/116517777869130935

Reminder: If someone is claiming to be Signal Support, or your organization's/company's support on Signal, and asking you to provide your PIN or authentication code, then you can be sure it's phishing.

Never accept contact requests and never ever give your PIN or authentication code.

Encryption protects you, but the moment you give these 2, it cannot do so anymore. You can imagine it as walls of the castle. They will protect you, but if you open the gates, then walls have no use anymore.

And as @kristin mentioned, if you use other apps and services, it's smart advice to apply these rules too.

#security #privacy #DataSecurity #safety #encryption #phishing #SocialEngineering #fraud #Signal

"Ex-local leader of #Orbán’s party arrested at #Budapest airport over #fraud case"

https://tvpworld.com/92933472/hungary-ex-fidesz-leader-rdi-feriz-arrested-at-budapest-airport

#Elections have #consequences

The #vote has consequences

*Not* voting also has consequences: you reward #malice, you block #justice

Are you listening Americans?

Do you want #MAGA goons punished?

And how do we achieve that?

Are you going to put two plus two together in your mind and figure out that means four, and fucking vote?

"But I want perfect, waah"

😠😡🤬

#Hungary #USA

Computer-enabled crimes: virtual scams
https://negativepid.blog/computer-enabled-crimes-virtual-scams/

#cybercrime #scams #onlineScams #fraud #internetFraud #identityTheft #onlineIdentity #romanceScams #financialScams #socialMedia #accounts #negativepid

Social media crimes: the Tinder Swindler
https://negativepid.blog/social-media-crimes-the-tinder-swindler/

#tinder #tinderSwindler #impersonation #scams #onlineScams #fraud #internetFraud #identityTheft #onlineIdentity #romanceScams #financialScams #socialMedia #accounts #negativepid

Computer-enabled crimes: virtual scams
https://negativepid.blog/computer-enabled-crimes-virtual-scams/

#cybercrime #scams #onlineScams #fraud #internetFraud #identityTheft #onlineIdentity #romanceScams #financialScams #socialMedia #accounts #negativepid

https://www.wacoca.com/news/2811514/ 「オペレーション・アトランティック」により、米国、英国、カナダ各地の被害者が特定され、4,500万ドルに上る仮想通貨詐欺の実態が明らかになりました。 – Bitcoin News #CANADA #cryptocurrency #Fraud #Phishing #UnitedKingdomUK #UnitedStatesUS #カナダ

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Snapchat sextortion rings
https://negativepid.blog/snapchat-sextortion-rings/

#cybercrime #extortion #sextortion #snapchat #scams #onlineScams #fraud #internetFraud #identityTheft #onlineIdentity #romanceScams #financialScams #socialMedia #accounts #negativepid

The Twitter Bitcoin scam

https://negativepid.blog/the-twitter-bitcoin-scam/

#BarackObama #ElonMusk #JeffBezos #BillGates #Apple #twitter #bitcoin #crypto #scams #onlineScams #fraud #internetFraud #identityTheft #onlineIdentity #financialScams #socialMedia #accounts #negativepid

Deepfake celebrity scams
https://negativepid.blog/deepfake-celebrity-scams/

#deepfakes #celebrities #celebrityScams #impersonation #scams #onlineScams #AI #fraud #internetFraud #identityTheft #onlineIdentity #romanceScams #financialScams #socialMedia #accounts #negativepid

One case that sparked tension involved #cryptocurrency entrepreneur #JustinSun, a major backer of the #Trump ​family's #WorldLibertyFinancial venture, & another involved #Tesla boss Elon #Musk, a big donor to Trump's campaign who briefly served as the president's special adviser, the 2 people said.

#criminal #law #SEC #felon47 #fraud #InsiderTrading #MarketManipulation

The #US Securities & Exchange Commission's top enforcement official, who left abruptly last week, had clashed with agency leaders over the direction of its #enforcement program, including the handling of cases with ties to #Trump & his family, according to 3 people familiar with the matter.

#criminal #law #SEC #felon47 #fraud #InsiderTrading #MarketManipulation
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/us-secs-ex-enforcement-chief-clashed-with-bosses-before-leaving-sources-say-2026-03-23/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement

#SEC Enforcement Division Director Margaret Ryan resigned last Monday after just over 6 months on the job, Reuters was the first to report.…

3 of the people said Ryan wanted to be more aggressive in pursuing charges for #fraud & other #misconduct including in cases that touched #Trump
& his circle, but faced resistance from SEC chair Paul Atkins & other top #Republican political appointees.

#criminal #law #felon47 #InsiderTrading #MarketManipulation

In this era of #Fraud, from #AI data center financing to #spaceX to #Trump and #Maga dupes... From industrialized lonely hearts and spam call scams, through facial recognition and #citizensunited ... And maybe the greatest fraud of all, #religion.

What do we do in the future? How do we educate humans such that they don't become such easy marks? Hit the nuke button and let the 🦠 begin again? Well, that may happen. Not happy about it, but it may happen. Let's have a better spin of the wheel...

Tennessee grandmother jailed after AI face recognition error links her to fraud

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/12/tennessee-grandmother-ai-fraud

#HackerNews #Tennessee #grandmother #AI #fraud #justice #tech #news

"When I write to Youngblood in prison, he says the case against him was a lie. He insists he is innocent. His letters are written in neat, looping handwriting, their tone conspiratorial: 'There’s so much you do not know.… Write your hit piece. So be it. But you’d be wrong.'" — Matthew Bremner for Rolling Stone https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/kota-youngblood-12-million-fraud-1235511404/?src=longreads #truecrime #longreads #fraud #investigation

"I obtained a video showing the system working live: as a victim enters their details, the information instantly appears on the phisher’s screen." —Fin Carter for Dispatch

https://dispatch-media.com/the-student-behind-a-phishing-empire/?src=longreads

#longreads #phishing #fraud #scam #writing

fascinating history of the rise and fall of one of the world's top scam lords operating out of #Cambodia, Prince Group CEO Chen Zhi from one of the incredibly brave Cambodian reporters on the ground who've been tracking the takeover of the country by Chinese organized crime, funded by crypto scams.

Zhi was just arrested and extradited (to china) and the US government seized $13 billion worth of his #bitcoin a few months ago (China got the man, US got the bitcoins).

#PrinceGroup and the massive #pigbutchering cyberscam slave compounds Chen Zhi operated are among the biggest users of #Tether's #stablecoin #USDT on Trump business partner #JustinSun's blockchain #Tron.

https://huangyan.substack.com/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-chen-zhi

#ChenZhi #PrinceGroup #HuionePay #HuioneGuarantee #crypto #uspol #vietnam #Myanmar #infosec #scam #scams #fraud #corruption #asean #organizedcrime #PhnomPenh #HunSen #mafia #chineseMafia #Sihanoukville

Another #criminal #pardon

#Trump #Pardons the Husband of a #Republican Congressional Ally

Robert Harshbarger Jr. pleaded #guilty in 2013 to #healthcare #fraud & distributing a misbranded drug. His wife, #DianaHarshbarger (R-TN), is a member of #Congress.

#law #corruption #felon47
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/us/politics/trump-pardon-republican-harshbarger.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Other career prosecutors in the office had also reached that conclusion, some of whom have since been fired. #Comey & James are both also pursuing motions seeking the dismissal of their cases on grounds that #LindseyHalligan’s appointment was #illegal. A judge has scheduled a hearing next week to weigh arguments on that front.

#law #LegalEthics #RevengePolitics #retribution #FHFA #fraud #Trump #LetitiaJames

“Since his second inauguration, the President & his handpicked Department of Justice officials exhausted every avenue to secure the payback the President demanded,” defense attorneys Abbe Lowell & Andrew Bosse wrote. “The charges against AG James constitute unconstitutional vindictive & selective prosecution.”

#law #LegalEthics #RevengePolitics #retribution #FHFA #fraud #Trump #LetitiaJames

In a court filing Friday, #LetitiaJames’ attorneys maintained that the mortgage fraud case she’s facing in Virginia is nothing more than an effort at retaliation for the staggering civil #fraud judgment she won against #Trump & his real estate organization last year.

#law #LegalEthics #RevengePolitics #retribution #FHFA

AYFKM? cuz you know … #law #Constitution #emoluments etc!!!

Serbian Lawmakers Approve Luxury #Trump #Hotel on #Historic Bombing Site
Despite a #fraud investigation into officials who endorsed the project, Parliament used an extraordinary provision in the Constitution to push the plans through

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/world/europe/serbia-hotel-trump-kushner.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Casada, 66, was sentenced in September to 3 years in federal #prison on charges related to a kickback & #bribery arrangement involving the legislature’s state-funded constituent mailer program. Cade Cothren, 38, previously Casada’s chief of staff, was also convicted of #fraud & related federal charges & sentenced to 2½ years in prison. They were due to report to prison later this month.

#criminal #law #felon47 #Trump #pardons #corruption

#felon47 #pardons fmr #Tennessee #House speaker & his fmr top aide due to report to #prison this month

#Trump has granted #clemency in the opening year of his term to several fmr elected officials convicted on #corruption-related charges.

#GlenCasada, who was ousted from his position as the #Republican speaker of the Tennessee House just months into the job in 2019, received a phone call from Trump Thursday informing him of the decision.

#criminal #law #bribery #fraud
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/11/06/glen-casada-cade-cothren-trump-pardon/

The ouster of Joe Allen, #FHFA's acting #InspectorGeneral, follows the agency's director, Bill Pulte, becoming an outspoken voice in support of the #Trump admin. Across the government, the Trump admin has so far fired or reassigned close to two dozen agency #watchdogs, who police #waste, #fraud & #abuse. It has also defunded the group that supervises those offices.

#law #RevengePolitics #USpol #authoritarianism #fascism #tyranny

#GiftArticle

#NYAG #LetitiaJames, is seeking to block a #DOJ investigation into her office’s civil #fraud case against #Trump by challenging the legitimacy of the #USattorney in Albany, according to 2 people with knowledge of the matter.

James’s effort marks the fifth time the appointment of a top federal prosecutor installed by Trump has been challenged. The US attorney, John A. Sarcone III, declined to comment through a spox.

#law
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/nyregion/letitia-james-investigation-subpoenas.html?unlocked_article_code=1.xk8.Ntcp.-eURhCdEz64J&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

But last week, she got a notice that #Trump had fired her, effective immediately. The reason? A vague line about the admin’s changing priorities, according to two people familiar with the matter [well that’s true. They want to commit #fraud & #waste & #abuse their offices].

Salehi was the latest casualty ofTrump’s mass purge of govt #watchdogs, the investigators assigned to agencies across the admin who act as the eyes & ears of #Congress & ensure #taxpayer dollars are not misused.

#law

#ParisaSalehi was the kind of internal #watchdog who had earned a strong reputation for digging up #fraud, #waste & abuse during her 15 years in govt service. She had risen through the ranks at inspectors general offices at the #State Dept & #USAID, eventually taking over internal investigations at the #ExportImport #Bank of the US, where her office reported saving tens of millions of dollars.

#Trump #law #InspectorGeneral #oversight #accountability #corruption

Nothing to see here, move along…

#Trump Dismisses Yet Another #InspectorGeneral, Fueling #Oversight Alarms

With the firing of the #ExportImport #Bank’s inspector general, Trump has sidelined around two dozen of the #watchdogs who seek out #fraud & #mismanagement in #FederalAgencies.

#law #accountability #corruption
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/us/politics/trump-inspectors-general.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

AYFKM???

#Trump said Friday he had commuted the sentence of former US #House Rep #GeorgeSantos, who is serving more than 7 years in federal #prison after pleading #guilty to #fraud & #IdentityTheft charges.

The #NY Republican was sentenced in April after admitting last year to deceiving donors & stealing the identities of 11 people — including his own family members — to make donations to his campaign.

#criminal #law #pardon #commutation
https://apnews.com/article/trump-george-santos-commutation-pardon-8ae46d6351cefe01d79f74920521b7a2?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-10-17-Breaking+News

Everybody who holds #Bitcoin only hopes for one thing: that they can find someone who will pay a higher price for it.

Bitcoin is a clear visualisation of the eternal pyramid question:
'At the end, who will hold the bag?'

And all the people who sold on time will laugh at the 'suckers' who didn't. Complimenting themselves on how smart they are, while defrauding others.

Being against Bitcoin is not being against technology, but is being against #fraud with technology.

@AJ_West

@AJ_West

Being against pyramid schemes such as Bitcoin, does not make a person being against technological progress.

It just means that you are against defrauding people with technological progress.

#Bitcoin #pyramid #WhoWillHoldTheBag #Fraud

The #dynastic grooming machine fuckery in corporate media.
"Conservatives had latched onto reports – that have since been retracted – that the #casings for #bullets found with the gun that police suspect was used to kill Kirk were engraved with markings indicating “trans ideology”."
#fraud
#charliekirk
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/13/charlie-kirk-killing-alleged-shooter-motivation

In any virtual place where people socialize and exchange anything of value, cybercriminals find a way to make the system work for them. In this article, we provide an overview of all the illicit activities that happen behind and within the most loved online video games, with users knowingly or unknowingly participating in them.

https://negativepid.blog/cybercrime-in-mmorgps/

#MMORPGs #cybercrime #moneyLaundering #fraud #gambling #addiction #organizedCrime

The $94 Million Smart Meter Surveillance Scheme Exposed

https://youtu.be/onYWQJsWFpk

Sacramento residents discovered their utility company has been secretly feeding their private energy data to police without warrants, leading to a massive surveillance operation that generated $94 million in fines. This explosive investigation reveals how SMUD transformed smart meters into government spy devices, monitoring when you shower, sleep, or use appliances.

Innocent homeowners faced armed police raids for using electricity to power medical equipment or mine cryptocurrency. One resident was forced outside in his underwear at gunpoint, while another disabled veteran was threatened with arrest for refusing warrantless entry. The surveillance threshold dropped dramatically from 7,000 to just 2,800 kilowatt hours per month, making air conditioning use suspicious in Sacramento's brutal heat.

Internal documents expose how SMUD analysts actively mined customer data for police, checking over 10,000 homes in a single month. Despite California law explicitly prohibiting utilities from sharing precise meter data without warrants, SMUD violated these protections daily for a decade.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation's lawsuit could reshape smart meter privacy nationwide. With the October 2025 court decision approaching, every American with a smart meter needs to understand how their utility company might be spying on them right now.

#SMUD #SmartMeters #EFF #Privacy #Utilities #Electricity #surveillance #SurveillanceCapitalism #Spying #4thAmendment #WarrantlessSearch #Constitution #CivilRights #Courts #Lawsuit #SCOTUS #Cops #Police #Extortion #Fraud

@privacy@a.gup.pe @infosec@a.gup.pe @infostorm@a.gup.pe