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Online Shopping Reminder: If It Looks Too Good To Be True ...
As we look towards the Christmas holiday, 'tis the season for freaking out and making poor decisions with regards to online shopping. Tonight a friend reached out to get my help in convincing his...
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Chinese Call Center "Runner" Pleads Guilty in Georgia
This week the Department of Justice received a guilty plea from Jianjie Liu, a Chinese citizen living in Texas....
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BEC Still #1, but Investment Fraud passes Romance Scams
https://www.ic3.gov/Media/PDF/AnnualReport/2021_IC3Report.pdfThe FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (ic3.gov) has released their 2021 Internet Crime Report.The number of complaints increased by 7%...
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Russia's Invasion of Ukraine and CISA/FBI's New Era of Transparency
BLUF: Bottom Line Up FrontI want to start this post with the most important thing right up top:The CISA.gov/Shields-Up page starts with this statement. PLEASE take it seriously, and escalate to your...
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That Job Your Co-Worker Emailed You About? Yeah ... No.
My niece, Anna, is a school teacher in the Birmingham Public School system.Another teacher in the system got phished and the phisher sent an email to a bunch of other teachers, offering them a summer...
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Nigerian Money Transfer Company Linked to Romance Scam Money Laundering
On July 7, 2022, the US Attorney for the Northern District of Texas announced that Ping Express had been found guilty. Prior to this, their CEO Anslem Oshionebo*, their COO Opeyemi Odeyale (now...
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Please stop calling all Crypto Scams "Pig Butchering!"
 Lately there has been a media-driven craze in the fraud community to call every crypto-investment scam "Pig Butchering." I hope you will join me in canceling that term after you read this article.The...
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Three UK-based Nigerian BEC Scammers Used Construction Intelligence Service...
 On 10AUG2022 three Nigerians were extradited from the UK to the US to face charges related to their roles in conducting Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks against a number of US-based...
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Chidozie Collins Obasi - COVID Fraud & Work at Home Scams
On September 9, 2022, the FBI's Philadelphia office asked for help locating Chidozie Collins Obasi. OBASI is charged with being part of a conspiracy to steal more than $30 Million related to COVID...
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The new DOJ Law Enforcement Crypto Reports (TL;DR)
TL;DR? Good news! I read them for you!  On 15SEP2022, the Department of Justice released their report "The Role of Law Enforcement in Detecting, Investigating, and Prosecuting Criminal Activity...
View ArticleSIM Swapping, Crypto Theft, and Sentencing in the United States
 As you know from the title of my blog, "CyberCrime & Doing Time," I'm very interested in cybercrime and the criminal justice system. This week I've been looking at SIM Swapping cases and wanted to...
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Watching a Crypto Investment Scam WhatsApp Group
If your online accounts are like mine, almost every day I'm "force joined" to a new Telegram group where a crypto investment scammer tries to tell everyone how great their scam investment site is. This...
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Mirror Trading International's Cornelius Johannes Steynberg and his $3.4...
Some of you may have heard that students in UAB's Investigating Online Crimes class have been researching Crypto Investment Scam websites. You can find a list of some of the sites we've identified so...
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China continues Pig-Butchering Crack-down
One of my techniques for keeping current on Cybercrime trends is having an "interesting" collection of international news ticklers. This story came to me via X:CyberScamMonitor via a QQ account called...
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Vietnam's Massive CAPTCHA crackers vs. Microsoft DCU
Earlier this month, Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit was featured in a WIRED article by Lily Hay Newman - Microsoft’s Digital Crime Unit Goes Deep on How It Disrupts Cybercrime. In part, the article...
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Classic Baggie: A Delaware BEC Case calls him the leader of an International...
The U.S. Attorney's office in Delaware charged Olugbenga Lawal with being a major money launderer for a Nigerian-based international criminal organization that specialized in Business Email Compromise...
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Classic Baggie: Part 2 - How to run a Money Laundering Operation
In Part 1 of this story Classic Baggie: A Delaware BEC Case calls him the leader of an International Criminal Organization the prosecutor in the case of Olugbenga Lawal has given his opening arguments,...
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Book Review: The Crypto Launderers: Crime and CryptoCurrencies
The Crypto Launderers: Crime and Cryptocurrencies from the Dark Web to DeFi and Beyond - by David Carlisle  I wish I had a way to review this book without having first read last year’s “Tracers in the...
View ArticleClassic Baggie: Part Three - the Romance Scam Victims
 If you are just joining us, we are reviewing the court transcripts of a Business Email Compromise / Romance Scam Money Laundering case. Part One reveals "Classic Baggie: A Delaware BEC Case calls him...
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Identification Documents: an Obsolete Fraud Countermeasure
When I'm talking to bankers and other fraud fighters, I often mention how easy it is for a criminal to obtain a Drivers License bearing any information they desire. I was reminded of this again as I...
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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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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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$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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