Myanmar’s military government has detained more than 10,000 foreign nationals who the junta said illegally entered the country for involvement in online scams. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/28/asia-pacific/crime-legal/myanmar-foreigners-scam-center/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #crimelegal #myanmar #thailand #southeastasia #fraud #forcedlabor #kidnapping
More than 600 people have fled one of Myanmar's most notorious scam centers and crossed into Thailand, a Thai provincial official has said, after a military raid on the compound. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/23/asia-pacific/crime-legal/myanmar-scam-raid-thailand/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #crimelegal #thailand #myanmar #forcedlabor #kidnapping #fraud #southeastasia
The future of cybercrime is AI-optimized — and Japan is increasingly a target. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/22/japan/crime-legal/ai-cyberattacks-japan/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #fraud #cybersecurity #asahi #hacking
A South Korean court has dismissed a stock manipulation case against Kakao Corp. founder Brian Kim, allowing the influential internet platform to refocus on stabilizing its sprawling businesses. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/10/21/tech/kakao-founder-stock-manipulation/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #kakao #southkorea #apps #stocks #fraud #briankim
Myanmar's junta has raided one of the country's most notorious internet scam centers and seized Starlink devices. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/20/asia-pacific/crime-legal/myanmar-scam-compound-starlink/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #crimelegal #myanmar #fraud #southeastasia
Sixty-four South Koreans who had been detained in Cambodia for alleged involvement in cyberscam operations returned home Saturday and were under arrest, a police official said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/18/asia-pacific/crime-legal/south-korea-cambodia-scam-return/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #crimelegal #southkorea #cambodia #fraud #gangs
Alex Akselrod
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AYFKM???
#Trump said Friday he had commuted the sentence of former US #House Rep #GeorgeSantos, who is serving more than 7 years in federal #prison after pleading #guilty to #fraud & #IdentityTheft charges.
The #NY Republican was sentenced in April after admitting last year to deceiving donors & stealing the identities of 11 people — including his own family members — to make donations to his campaign.
#criminal #law #pardon #commutation
https://apnews.com/article/trump-george-santos-commutation-pardon-8ae46d6351cefe01d79f74920521b7a2?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-10-17-Breaking+News
AYFKM???
#Trump said Friday he had commuted the sentence of former US #House Rep #GeorgeSantos, who is serving more than 7 years in federal #prison after pleading #guilty to #fraud & #IdentityTheft charges.
The #NY Republican was sentenced in April after admitting last year to deceiving donors & stealing the identities of 11 people — including his own family members — to make donations to his campaign.
#criminal #law #pardon #commutation
https://apnews.com/article/trump-george-santos-commutation-pardon-8ae46d6351cefe01d79f74920521b7a2?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-10-17-Breaking+News
Tokyo police have served two people with additional arrest warrants, including a person believed to be the leader of a group accused of committing phone scam cases. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/17/japan/crime-legal/phone-scam-leader-arrest/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesepolice #china #phones #fraud
The Aichi Prefectural Police has arrested seven key figures of an organization that allegedly took over bank accounts to sell them to criminal groups. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/17/japan/crime-legal/bank-account-brokers-arrested/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesepolice #aichi #fraud #phones #banks
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I have previously, in good faith, reached out to the person claiming to run "Gaza Verified," and they showed no interest in taking action. In fact, their own website is independently attempting to raise $36,000.
I understand that many people want to help — what’s happening in Gaza is truly awful. But you'd be wiser to donate through trusted organizations like the Red Cross or, as someone else suggested, UNICEF, rather than responding to random direct messages.
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First, let me say: what’s happening in Gaza is absolutely awful. But what’s also awful is that there are dishonest people taking advantage of others during a crisis.
In one photo, from Facebook (my job, where I work), we had a woman claiming to be a 36-year-old mother of two children, ages 4 and 7. She spaced out the URL in her post, hoping it wouldn’t get flagged by spam filters (it did). The very next day, someone on the Fediverse posted the exact same message, with the same URL. The only differences were that they used a different name, a different profile photo, and claimed to be a 19-year-old girl.
I have reviewed every account associated with the group known as “Gaza Verified” — and they are all scammers. Every single one of them.
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This is photo 2 of 2. In this photo, the next day, the exact same post is made (word for word) by someone claiming to be a 19-year-old girl on Mastodon with the same Go Fund Me URL.
This is photo 1 of 2. In this photo, which is from Facebook, where someone who claimed to be a 36-year-old mother of two children (ages 4 and 7) claims that the bombs are getting close, and they try to share a URL for their Go Fund Me.
U.S. and U.K. authorities unveiled sanctions against a British-Cambodian tycoon accused of running cyberscam operations where workers, some trafficked, carry out transnational fraud schemes. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/16/asia-pacific/crime-legal/cambodia-prince-us-uk-sanctions/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #crimelegal #cambodia #fraud #us #uk #organizedcrime #forcedlabor #humantrafficking
South Korea will send a special team to Cambodia on Wednesday to discuss cases of fake jobs and scam centers involved in kidnapping dozens of its nationals, officials said a day after Seoul vowed to bring them all home. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/15/asia-pacific/crime-legal/seoul-cambodia-scam-kidnappings/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #crimelegal #southkorea #cambodia #forcedlabor #fraud #cryptocurrencies
The U.S. has charged in absentia the chairman of Cambodian conglomerate Prince Group with running a "sprawling cyber fraud empire” that led to the seizure of bitcoin worth about $15 billion. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/15/world/crime-legal/us-bitcoin-cambodian-cyber-fraud/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #crimelegal #cambodia #cybercrime #bitcoin #us #fraud #organizedcrime #romancescams
Eighty South Koreans who were possible victims of fake jobs or scam centers were unaccounted for in Cambodia, South Korea's foreign ministry said, after the torture death of a student there shocked the country. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/14/asia-pacific/crime-legal/south-korea-cambodia-scam-center/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #crimelegal #southkorea #cambodia #fraud #gangs
Fraud factories in Myanmar blamed for scamming Chinese and American victims out of billions of dollars are still in business and bigger than ever, an investigation reveals. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/14/asia-pacific/crime-legal/myanmar-scam-musk-starlink/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #crimelegal #myanmar #southeastasia #elonmusk #starlink #china #organizedcrime #fraud #romancescams
Employment-related scams rose by over 1,000% from May through July, when new graduates typically search for jobs, and nearly 1 in 3 Americans report have received job offer scams via text message, according to McAfee. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/10/06/economy/scams-us-job-hunters/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #economy #us #jobs #cybersecurity #misinformation #fraud
Tim Chambers
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New York Times: Spam and Scams Proliferate in Facebook’s Political Ads. This link goes to a gift article. “The ads are a lucrative part of Facebook’s advertising revenue that, the project’s researchers and others say, has led the company to turn a blind eye to a flood of low-quality or deceptive content, spam and in some cases outright fraud on the platform.”
New York Times: Spam and Scams Proliferate in Facebook’s Political Ads. This link goes to a gift article. “The ads are a lucrative part of Facebook’s advertising revenue that, the project’s researchers and others say, has led the company to turn a blind eye to a flood of low-quality or deceptive content, spam and in some cases outright fraud on the platform.”