Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Victims aged 60 or over who need assistance with filing a complaint can contact the Justice Department's Elder Justice Hotline, 1-833-FRAUD-11 (or 833-372-8311).
If you think you are a victim of this, or any other online scam please file a report with your local law enforcement agency and the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) at ic3.gov.
Victims have lost up to $500,000 after falling for new scamming techniques.
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 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.
Kenny was sentenced to one year and one day in prison, two years of supervised release and $4,000 fine. [27] He is set to be released May 4, 2011. Schaffer stepped down from the North Hudson Sewerage Authority commissioner and pleaded guilty to criminal information and extortion charges. He was sentenced in January 2011 to 18 months in prison. [28]
Americans increasingly lose more money to online scams almost every year, with the FBI saying last year that victims had reported a record $10.2 billion in losses in 2022. But Chinese nationals ...