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  • New Scheme Uses Denial-of-Service Attacks to Access Consumer Accounts
    Contact the Internet Crime Complaint Center if you're victimized
    In New Jersey, telecommunications denial-of-service (TDoS) attacks were used as a diversion to prevent financial and brokerage institutions from verifying victim account changes and transactions, affording fraudsters enough time to transfer funds from victims' brokerage and financial accounts.
  • Help! We've Been Robbed!
    Concern for 'friends' could cost you
    The Internet Crime Complaint Center continues to receive reports of email or social networking accounts being compromised and used in a scam to swindle consumers out of thousands of dollars.
  • Insurance Companies Profit from Fallen Soldiers’ Funds
    And the Office of Veterans Affairs has allowed the practice
    For the families of fallen soldiers, money from their loved ones’ life insurance policies provides little comfort for their loss, but it adds insult to injury to learn that insurance companies profit by holding onto payouts, using the funds to make more money, and pocketing most of the earnings.
  • Credit Union Employee Arrested for Embezzlement and Elder Abuse
    Targeting the "inattentive" or elderly
    Ugh. This may be a new low: a vulture who preys from behind a bank counter and a nice tie. Here's the story.
  • Largest Federal Health Care Bust Ever
    Medicare Fraud Strike Force operations began in 2007
    Ninety-four people have been charged for alleged participation in schemes to submit more than $251 million in false claims to the Medicare program.
  • Check That Check
    Look for these telltale signs
    Phony checks and money orders may look real enough to fool bank tellers. Some are fake cashier’s checks; others look like they’re from legitimate businesses. Companies whose names appear may be real, but someone falsifies the checks without their knowledge.
  • The FTC Doesn’t Conduct Sweepstakes
    Scammers just want your money
    The FTC is the nation’s consumer protection agency. It investigates fraud and provides free information, but it never collects money directly from consumers.
  • Florida Tops Country for Staged Auto Accidents
    Fraudulent claims have increased 46% over two years
    Car accidents happen every day, and while most are unintentional, others are purposefully committed. Unless someone becomes suspicious, many of these types of accidents go undetected.
  • Forensic Mortgage Loan Audits Are the Latest “Rescue” Scam
    The FTC says steer clear of them
    For an upfront fee of several hundred dollars, so-called forensic loan auditors, mortgage loan auditors, or foreclosure prevention auditors offer to review your mortgage documents to determine whether your lender complied with state and federal mortgage lending laws.
  • 7 Ways to Spot a Rogue Moving Company
    Learn the signs and avoid getting scammed
    More than 37 million Americans—about 13%—move to a different home every year, according to the latest U.S. Census Bureau statistics. With numbers like that, it’s no surprise that scammers are ready to strike.
  • ATM Fraud on the Rise
    Doctored “skimming” machines are hard to spot
    Since last fall, fraudsters have increasingly been mounting “well-organized and systematic attacks” that involve placing skimming devices on not just ATM machines but also point-of-sale systems and gas-pump card readers.
  • Mail Brings Lots of Meal Invitations
    As always, if it sounds too good to be true . . .
    An AARP survey of more than 1,000 people 55 and over found that many who attended so-called free lunch seminars were “pitched investments that were unsuitable for them or were asked for information that could expose them to financial fraud.”
  • Oil Spill Creates New Opportunity for Scammers
    FBI, Florida attorney general warn public
    As the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico continues to wreak havoc in the water, effects of a different kind are starting to be felt on land. The FBI says that an existing fraud tip line is now accepting information from the public about suspected fraud associated with the oil spill.
  • Utility Customers Report Suspicious Calls
    Goal is to get personal information
    Pacific Power and Rocky Mountain Power customers in Oregon, Washington, northern California, and Utah have reported calls claiming to be from company representatives attempting to collect on alleged past-due utility accounts.
  • Food Fraud on the Rise
    Media cast light on some of the problems
    The counterfeit food industry is worth about $49 billion a year and involves everything from fine food to boxed fruit juice. The intent has been to defraud people, not make them sick, though that has happened.
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