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Jun. 12—The FBI Portland Division has seen an increase in reports of scammers falsely representing themselves as FBI agents, or a representative of another government agency, and sending ...
The IC3 was founded in 2000 as the Internet Fraud Complaint Center (IFCC), and was tasked with gathering data on crimes committed online such as fraud, scams, and thefts. [1] Other crimes tracked by the center included intellectual property rights matters, computer intrusions , economic espionage , online extortion , international money ...
The FBI also spied upon and collected information on Puerto Rican independence leader Pedro Albizu Campos and his Nationalist political party in the 1930s. Albizu Campos was convicted three times in connection with deadly attacks on US government officials: in 1937 (Conspiracy to overthrow the government of the United States), in 1950 (attempted murder), and in 1954 (after an armed assault on ...
The first type are also applicable to corrupt state and local officials: [1] the mail and wire fraud statutes (enacted 1872), including the honest services fraud provision, [2] the Hobbs Act (enacted 1934), [3] the Travel Act (enacted 1961), [4] and the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) (enacted 1970).
Here’s how the scam worked.
The FBI also offers suggestions on how to avoid charity scams. Here are four of them: Be on the lookout for groups with copycat names or names similar to those of reputable, well-known organizations.
J. Irving Whalley (R-PA) received suspended three-year sentence and fined $11,000 in 1973 for using mails to deposit staff salary kickbacks and threatening an employee to prevent her from giving information to the FBI. [228] Martin B. McKneally (R-NY) was placed on one year's probation and fined $5,000 in 1971 for failing to file income tax ...
Plasmic Echo – a name that could conceivably work for 1970s rock band or could describe the supernatural goo left behind by the ghosts chased in the movie “Ghostbusters” – appears to be ...