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• Fake email addresses - Malicious actors sometimes send from email addresses made to look like an official email address but in fact is missing a letter(s), misspelled, replaces a letter with a lookalike number (e.g. “O” and “0”), or originates from free email services that would not be used for official communications.
An overpayment scam, also known as a refund scam, is a type of confidence trick designed to prey upon victims' good faith.In the most basic form, an overpayment scam consists of a scammer claiming, falsely, to have sent a victim an excess amount of money.
Madoff's firm paid Friehling between $12,000 and $14,500 a month for his services between 2004 and 2007. [20] Although required, Friehling was not registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, which was created under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 to help detect fraud.
An upstate New York automobile association is warning its members of a recent uptick in fraudulent emails and text messages. AAA Western and Central New York alerted its members to the fraudulent ...
Oct. 10—Penn Foster's former director of accounting services will plead guilty Friday in federal court to embezzling $2 million from the Scranton-based online school. Catherine Latoski, 52, of ...
The woman stole $284,000 in checks and $20,000 to $40,000 in other items, leading to losses of over $304,000, prosecutors said in court documents.
Affinity fraud is a form of investment fraud in which the fraudster preys upon members of identifiable groups, such as religious or ethnic communities, language minorities, the elderly, or professional groups.
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