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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.
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.
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.
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 ...
Both the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) [5] and the TreasuryDirect web site [31] have posted statements that redemption schemes are fraudulent. The Inspector General of the Treasury, [ 39 ] the Federal Trade Commission , [ 40 ] and various Federal Reserve Banks [ 41 ] have warned that the Treasury and the Federal Reserve Banks do not ...
Ivanov's interview involved hacking an FBI controlled honeypot. While Ivanov was hacking the FBI honeypot, all keystrokes and network traffic were recorded as potential evidence. [6] In addition, the FBI made video and audio recordings of the entire interview process. After Ivanov successfully gained access to the FBI honeypot, he was arrested. [6]
The FBI is warning of an extreme scam hitting the U.S. where criminals coerce a victim to stage their own kidnapping and film it, providing blackmail material against their own families.. The ...
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]