The Department of Justice Oct. 13 announced a series of actions disrupting a scheme by the North Korean government that involved placing remote IT workers in U.S. companies to conduct malicious activities on the government’s behalf. The scheme involved North Korean IT…
Kolkata Police have arrested two men in Burrabazar for allegedly carrying counterfeit currency bundles with a purported value of Rs 20 lakh, leading investigators to a suspected counterfeiting unit in neighbouring Howrah. The arrests were made near the Strand Road–Mirbahar…
Dara O’Connor, 30, was caught… The Kansas City woman who set fire to a reported Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility earlier this year has been sentenced to two years in prison. Dara O’Connor, 30, was caught throwing Molotov cocktails – incendiary devices usually…
An Upsate business is warning others about counterfeit money circulating in the area. PELZER, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - An Upsate business is warning others about counterfeit money circulating in the area. Happy Cow Creamery, located on McKelvey Road in Pelzer, took to…
By Rick Owens on October 29, 2026No Comment 10/28/26 – The former postmaster of Waverly, Iowa, was sentenced on October 26, 2026, to five years of probation and eight months of home confinement. Merri Ann Burgart, formerly known as Merri Ann Bentley, age 43, from Hazelton, Iowa,…
Four months after two Florida men were charged with operating a sham insurance company and a month after regulators ordered them to cease operations, the two have been indicted on federal fraud and money laundering charges. A federal grand jury…
The U.S. Treasury sanctioned ten people and one entity, including two Russian crypto middlemen, for laundering money from North Korean fake IT worker schemes that fund its weapons programs. The U.S. Treasury Department on Tuesday sanctioned ten individuals and one company, accusing…
A scammer posing as a bank fraud department employee talked a victim into making multiple wire transfers, including one for $80,000, and withdrawing another $79,000 in cash over a matter of days, draining a total of $159,500 before the scheme was discovered. The…
A Florida resident has lost $159,500 after a scammer posing as a bank fraud investigator talked them into wiring money and handing over cash in parking lots. The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office says the scam started on October 7th, when someone claiming to…
Treasury sanctioned 10 individuals and one entity over North Korean IT worker schemes that used crypto and intermediaries to fund weapons programs. The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned 10 individuals and one entity on Oct. 28, 2026, targeting a North Korean…
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