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Facebook Lotteries to Avoid - with help from AA419
This morning I received a tip from one of the top West African fraud experts in the world, Derek Smythe from AA419. Derek and his team had been in communication with several victims of a "Poker...
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Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing: What is FATF?
Many cybercrime investigators seem narrowly focused on the bits and bytes of the crimes they investigate while not truly understanding or interacting with those who focus on where the money goes. As...
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FTC shutters four Robocalling services that made billions of calls in 2018
The Federal Trade Commission announced settlements this week that could result in many fewer of those annoying Robocalls we've all been receiving. Who did they sanction and what were those companies...
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Dissect Cyber wins major DHS S&T Award for their BEC Work
Congratulations to our great friends at Dissect Cyber for receiving the DHS S&T Global Award for their work on BEC scams!The FBI has been warning companies for several years now of the growing...
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Twitter Mystery Followers: ? GarBot ?
I'm one of those people who tends to review the people who are following me on Twitter and to block a great number of them. Why? Because many of them aren't real people!Here are a few...
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IC3.gov: BEC Compromises and Romance Fraud 2018
The Internet Crime & Complaint Center, IC3.gov, publishes annual statistics about the crimes which have been reported to them during the previous calendar year. The full report offers insights and...
View ArticleThe Next Miami Operation WireWire Case: Alfredo Veloso
In June of 2018, we blogged about a series of cases that the Department of Justice announced as "Operation: WireWire." In particular, we wrote three pieces about the "South Florida Cases" where a...
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SMS Phish? Amazon Reward!
Are you getting text messages about winning prizes at Amazon?I got one today with the following text from a VOIP-to-SMS number: 1 (410) 200-910The text was: "FRM: You have a New Amazon Reward! MSG:...
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TrickBot: New Injects, New Host
What’s in the Name: Call it IcedID or TrickBot? Tell that to a security researcher (Arsh Arora in this case) and watch them RANT(Gar-note: today's blog post is a guest blog from malware analyst, Arsh...
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FinCEN: BEC far worse than previously believed
Last week FinCEN, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, put out a new advisory with information about Business Email Compromise and it is far worse than has been previously disclosed.FinCEN...
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Lauded Nigerian Entrepreneur may be a BEC Yahoo Boy
Obinwanne Okeke: The EntrepreneurObinwanne Okeke, 31 year old CEO and Founder of Invictus Group, is frequently lauded as a success story. At age 28, Forbes Africa featured him in their June 2016 issue...
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Los Angeles Court charges 80 Nigerians with BEC and Romance Scam Crimes
Bank of America, BBVA Compass, CalCom FCU, Capital One, Citibank, Citizens Bank, Comerica, Chase Bank, PNC Bank, Regions Bank, SunTrust, TD Bank, US Bank, and Wells Fargo Bank were among the financial...
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Los Angeles: Stories of the BEC Victims (part 2)
In my last blog post, Los Angeles Court charges 80 Nigerians with BEC and Romance Scam Crimes, we laid out the background of a major BEC investigation and telling the stories of six victims, but the...
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Operation ReWired arrests 281 Business Email Compromise criminals
Operation: ReWired announced on September 10, 2019 On September 10, 2019, the Department of Justice announced that 281 arrests related to Business Email Compromise had been made, with 74 of those...
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FBI Fraud Arrests by Field Office, 2018
Each year, crime data geeks look forward to the publication of the CJIS "Crime in the United States" report. On September 30th, the FBI was able to share the Uniform Crime Report information for 2018,...
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18 Members of ATM Skimmer Gang Arrested -- Mostly Romanian
DOJ Press Release: 18 Members of International Fraud and Money Laundering ConspiracyThe Southern District of New York brought charges on 18 people for their involvement in an ATM Skimming ring that...
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"Welcome to Video" raid leads to 337 arrests due to Bitcoin Exchanges that...
The darkweb child sexual exploitation video site, "Welcome to Video", first came onto Law Enforcement's attention as a result of a case in the UK, where a geophysicist Matthew Falder was arrested....
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Stories of Romance Scam Victims: Ronayerin Ogolor
Ronayerin Ogolor has pled guilty to causing $900,000 in losses to at least 13 Romance Scam victims. Ogolor, a 50 year old naturalized citizen from Nigeria, lived in Kansas City, Missouri when he...
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A Targeted (?) Phish from a LinkedIn Connection
This morning while I was on the Exercise Bike at the UAB Rec Center I got a LinkedIn message from a colleague I haven't spoken to in a couple years.That was actually the SECOND funny thing about my...
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A Phish That Scans For Viruses
While I was on the train today I was checking email and found that I had received an interesting phish. It was sent to an email i haven't used in years that apparently still fowards:I certainly didn't...
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