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Fraud prevention experts have claimed that up to half of unemployment money doled out during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States may have been stolen.

Several experts, including the CEO of a fraud prevention service, estimated that criminals have stolen as much as half ...

By WHAV Staff | (File photograph.) A former Methuen man was sentenced to two years in prison Wednesday for aggravated identity theft and fraudulent use of a Social Security number. According to Acting U.S. Attorney Nathaniel R. Mendel, 32-year-old Manuel Enrique Arias Aguasvivas was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Rya W. Zobel to two years in prison and one year of supervised release. Arias Aguasvivas will also be subject to deportation to the Dominican Republic after completion of his ...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: After the Department of Justice charged more than 100 people last year with fraudulently seeking over $360 million in CARES Act emergency loans and other payments, the federal government has taken additional steps this year to combat fraud in federal COVID relief programs. These new efforts include expanding investigations and charging more criminal cases, initiating civil enforcement and forfeiture actions to recoup money to the Trea...

“Financial crimes and fraud are sky-high right now.” Pima County Sheriff’s Department Detective Jessica Badine said.

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: After nearly a year of crushing pandemic-related shutdowns and business interruptions, companies facing serious financial challenges are beginning to see the light at the end of the COVID-19 tunnel.  Vaccine distribution is underway, and the latest round of Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) funding is here.  That funding is part of the “Economic Aid to Hard-Hit Small Businesses, Nonprofits, and Venues Act,” which reauthorized th...

February 17, 2021 7:15 am Last summer, an employee at a New Jersey-based company used a personal USB device to download something off the company system and, without meaning to, injected malware that resulted in a ransomware attack on the whole system. Perhaps he should have known better: according to Norris McLaughlin cybersecurity law Chair Rebecca Warren, he was the company’s head of IT. Ninety percent of cyber attacks are occasioned by human error, Warren said as a panelist on NJBIZ Cy...

(MENAFN - Caribbean News Global) BALTIMORE, USA – A federal criminal complaint has been filed charging three men on the federal charge of conspiracy to commit wire fraud in connection with a scheme to allegedly sell purported COVID-19 vaccines. The criminal complaint was filed on February 9, 2021, and was unsealed today upon the defendants arrests. Charged in the criminal complaint are: Olakitan Oluwalade (Olaki), age 22, of Windsor Mill, Maryland; Olakis cousin, Odunayo Baba Oluwala...

Paula Reed Ward And Natasha Lindstrom Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021 4:34 p.m. | Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021 4:34 p.m. Steven Adams | Tribune-Review Sean Stipp | Tribune-Review Sean Stipp | Tribune-Review   Report fraud Federal authorities in Pittsburgh have asked anyone with information related to "suspected fraud, abuse or victimization related to long-term care facilities" and the covid-19 pandemic to file a report with the Western Pennsylvania COVID-19 Fraud Task Force. Reports can be filed by cal...

A man from Buford is one of six men indicted for fraudulently obtaining roughly $1.5 million in loans with the Paycheck Protection Program. Tabronx W. Smith, 43, of Buford was charged in an indictment filed in the Northern District of Georgia with conspiracy to commit bank fraud, bank fraud, false statements to a financial institution, and money laundering. He is charged along with Rodericque Thompson, 43, of Atlanta; Micah K. Baisden of Doraville; Travis C. Crosby, 31, of Wellford, South Carol...