Chinese Money Laundering Jargon via Google's Gemini
After having a short discussion with Gemini about Chinese Money Laundering, I could tell we weren't quite connecting on my Mandarin-assistance requests, so I shared an example post from a Telegram...
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Crypto-less Crypto Investment Scams: A California Case
My readers will know by now that I am addicted to PACER - the Public Access to Court Electronic Records. When I see headlines like this one, I am compelled to dive in and read every publicly released...
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Transnational Organized Crime Gang Steals $1 Million from Ontario Couple
Today my LinkedIn feed and Google News filter is showing me several stories that illustrate how we are failing to stop online scammers from stealing from our elderly. It starts with the...
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Our APWG eCrimes Paper on Tech Support Scam Facebook Groups
My colleague Raghavendra Cherupalli will be at APWG eCrime next month sharing a paper based on our research into the Facebook Groups where illicit Indian Call Centers share "Crime-as-a-Service"...
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Scam Compound Operators: Members of The Four Great Families sentenced to...
(photo from BBC article "China sentences 11 members of mafia family to death")On Monday this week, Chinese authorities sentenced to death 16 members of "The Four Families" for the multitude of crimes...
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New Smish: New York Department of Revenue
As I was visiting SmishTank to report the most recent SMish that I had received (an iMessage from a +27 South African telephone number claiming to be from ParkMobile) I noticed there had been many...
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SMS Pools and what the US Secret Service Really Found Around New York
Last week the United Nations General Assembly kicked off in New York City. On the first day, a strange US Secret Service press conference revealed that they had seized 300 SIM Servers with 100,000...
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Postal Thief Arrested in Oregon
The case caught my eye with the headline in the Oregon Live trumpeting: "Mail theft suspect in Portland made daring 13th-floor balcony escape, later arrested" and saying that the suspect's apartment...
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Microsoft DCU's Takedown of RaccoonO365
When I saw the name of the Microsoft Digital Crime Unit's latest target, "RaccoonO365" I probably reacted to it differently than most. With the help of a friend in Lagos, we've been watching the...
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Indian Call Center Scammers partner with Chinese Money Launderers
At the end of August 2025, The US Attorney's office in San Diego announced four indictments against members of a Chinese organized crime ring that stole at least $65 million from thousands of older...
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Attorney Generals go after Bitcoin ATMs for supporting Fraud
On 08SEP2025, the District of Columbia's Attorney General filed a lawsuit against Athena, a "Bitcoin ATM machine" provider with 4100+ BTMs installed. Athena charges as much as a 26% fee when someone...
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Chinese Guarantee Syndicates and the Fruit Machine
When I was speaking to a group of Bank Security people in New York City yesterday, I mentioned "machine rooms" -- which are rooms full of Apple iPhones that are used to send iMessage phishing spam....
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California Tax Refund Mobile Phish
A new round of mobile phish is imitating the State of California's "Franchise Tax Board" in a round of phishing sites that are gaining prominence in the past few days. I visited...
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Chinese SMS Spammers Go Mobile
CommsRisk once more has a story today about how Chinese organized crime is recruiting people online to drive around with SMS Blasters installed in their vehicles....
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Ghanaian fraudsters arrested for BEC/Sakawa
In Nigeria, scammers who specialize in Romance Scams and BEC are called "Yahoo Boys." In Ghana, the term for the same activity is "Sakawa." Several Ghanaian headlines are talking about this case...
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Operation Chakra V: Call Center Scammers and your PII
Here we have another cautionary tale about off-shoring customer service when faced with the reality of Call Center Scams that commit fraud via Tech Support Scams and Government Impersonation. In this...
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Project Red Hook: Chinese Gift Card Fraud at Scale
Project Red Hook is a Homeland Security Investigations operation examining how Chinese Organized Crime is committing wholesale Gift Card Fraud by using Chinese illegal immigrants to steal gift cards,...
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$50 Million in BEC Losses
The Eastern District of New York has announced charges against four men for their roles in a Business Email Compromise (BEC) and romance scams....
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Millions and Millions of Fraud Domains: China attacks Illegal Gambling and...
Last week I was reviewing a publication by the United Nation Office on Drugs and Crime published in January 2024, titled "Casinos, Money Laundering, Underground Banking, and Transnational Organized...
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BEC Scammers Adventures on the Run
Last week the case of Valentine FOMBE was finally brought to a close. FOMBE was sentenced to 144 months in Federal prison and ordered to pay $325,856 in restitution to victims of Business Email...
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