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Wisconsin consumer protection officials said the scammers are falsely claiming to have damaging video recordings or other personal information.
A Latvian man was charged in federal court Tuesday after a Fairfield company received an extortion demand and paid $250,000 to avoid a leak of its clients' data, court documents say.
People in the U.S. reported losing $5.6 billion to cryptocurrency scams in 2023, with older people hit the hardest, according to the FBI. The FBI’s first annual Cryptocurrency Fraud Report ...
Scammers are impersonating agents from the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Division of Consumer Affairs, trying to extort money from people who hold professional licenses.
"Over time, the victim is being cultivated, and the fraudsters are building confidence in the victim," Barnacle told ABC News. Americans lost $5.6 billion in cryptocurrency scams in 2023: FBI Skip ...
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 ...
A sextortion scam targeting emails is underway nationwide, in an attempt to coerce payments using threats of embarrassment, according to New York State Police. How does the sextortion scam work?