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.”
Japanese police on Wednesday launched special teams to reinforce their fight against tokuryū ad hoc crime groups made up of anonymous members. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/01/japan/crime-legal/new-police-team-combat-tokuryu-crime-groups/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesepolice #fraud #socialmedia
The Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office is expected to indict without arrest former lawmaker Akira Ishii for alleged fraud involving state-paid salaries of a secretary, sources have said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/30/japan/politics/ishii-indictment/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #akiraishii #fraud
As the country-wide census survey begins, officials warn of people impersonating census workers and asking for personal information. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/28/japan/people-warned-of-census-related-fraud/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #population #surveys #fraud
Alex Akselrod
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"A federal watchdog reported Thursday that Georgia’s program requiring able-bodied adults to document low-paying work to get Medicaid has spent much more on administrative costs than on providing health care...The GAO analysis shows that from fiscal year 2021 through the second quarter of 2025, Georgia reported $54.2 million in administrative spending and $26.2 million on health care."
#healthcare #medicaid #WorkRequirements #poverty #waste #fraud #abuse #georgia #USpol
Bjørnar (he/him)
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🚨"#DOL staffers who took DOGE’s “Fork in the Road” offer earlier this year have returned to the agency as full-time workers after collecting their full pay & benefits for months w/o performing their job duties.
The reinstatements demonstrate the whiplash fed workers face when Trump’s directives to shrink the govt collide with the demands of an agency’s day-to-day work.
#Waste #Fraud #Abuse #Musk #DOGE #Protest #TrumpRegime #USPol https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/labor-department-brings-back-staff-who-took-fork-offer-to-quit
"A federal watchdog reported Thursday that Georgia’s program requiring able-bodied adults to document low-paying work to get Medicaid has spent much more on administrative costs than on providing health care...The GAO analysis shows that from fiscal year 2021 through the second quarter of 2025, Georgia reported $54.2 million in administrative spending and $26.2 million on health care."
#healthcare #medicaid #WorkRequirements #poverty #waste #fraud #abuse #georgia #USpol
🚨"#DOL staffers who took DOGE’s “Fork in the Road” offer earlier this year have returned to the agency as full-time workers after collecting their full pay & benefits for months w/o performing their job duties.
The reinstatements demonstrate the whiplash fed workers face when Trump’s directives to shrink the govt collide with the demands of an agency’s day-to-day work.
#Waste #Fraud #Abuse #Musk #DOGE #Protest #TrumpRegime #USPol https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/labor-department-brings-back-staff-who-took-fork-offer-to-quit
A new fraud tactic has emerged in Osaka Prefecture, in which scammers send elderly people smartphones before swindling them using the devices. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/12/japan/crime-legal/scam-smartphone-elderly/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #phones #japanesepolice #elderly #osaka #socialmedia #fraud
Toyota Motor has introduced a five-stage internal qualification system for maintaining quality at vehicle certification test sites and developing related human resources. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/09/10/companies/toyota-qualification-fraud/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #mlit #toyota #carmakers #fraud
A special squad of Tokyo prosecutors have questioned former Nippon Ishin no Kai lawmaker Akira Ishii on a voluntary basis over an alleged fraud case involving secretarial pay, informed sources said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/09/japan/crime-legal/prosecutors-question-ex-japan-lawmaker-ishii/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #nipponishinnokai #fraud
Cory Doctorow
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The article had a provocative title: "The optimal amount of fraud is non-zero",
https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/optimal-amount-of-fraud/
TL;DR: There's some amount of friction in the #marketplace that prevents #fraud and prevents a large amount of non-fraud. Somehow understanding and tuning for that is what can make or break a #business.
I just read #wiki to catch up on #Kickstarter, and there's definitely an optimal amount of how much of a #business platform you can move to the #blockchain, and it's exactly zero.
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Cory Doctorow
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I'm catching up on @pluralistic 's newsletter and there was a line in https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/05/be-the-first-person/#to-not-do-something-that-no-one-else-has-ever-thought-of-not-doing-before that reminded me of an article I read recently:
> So #Kickstarter jettisoned the escrow step, handing campaign creators the full payout and then trusting them not to run off with the dough. The platform understood that this would allow a certain amount of #fraud and failure, but deemed it worthwhile, especially after they took countermeasures to minimize backer losses, such as...
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I'm catching up on @pluralistic 's newsletter and there was a line in https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/05/be-the-first-person/#to-not-do-something-that-no-one-else-has-ever-thought-of-not-doing-before that reminded me of an article I read recently:
> So #Kickstarter jettisoned the escrow step, handing campaign creators the full payout and then trusting them not to run off with the dough. The platform understood that this would allow a certain amount of #fraud and failure, but deemed it worthwhile, especially after they took countermeasures to minimize backer losses, such as...
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The article had a provocative title: "The optimal amount of fraud is non-zero",
https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/optimal-amount-of-fraud/
TL;DR: There's some amount of friction in the #marketplace that prevents #fraud and prevents a large amount of non-fraud. Somehow understanding and tuning for that is what can make or break a #business.
I just read #wiki to catch up on #Kickstarter, and there's definitely an optimal amount of how much of a #business platform you can move to the #blockchain, and it's exactly zero.
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I'm catching up on @pluralistic 's newsletter and there was a line in https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/05/be-the-first-person/#to-not-do-something-that-no-one-else-has-ever-thought-of-not-doing-before that reminded me of an article I read recently:
> So #Kickstarter jettisoned the escrow step, handing campaign creators the full payout and then trusting them not to run off with the dough. The platform understood that this would allow a certain amount of #fraud and failure, but deemed it worthwhile, especially after they took countermeasures to minimize backer losses, such as...
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A Japanese octogenarian was swindled out of about ¥1 million after falling in love online with a self-described astronaut who sought her help to avert a spaceship crisis. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/03/japan/crime-legal/fake-astronaut-scam-japan-elderly/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #fraud #socialmedia #elderly #japanesepolice #hokkaido
The amount of money swindled in special fraud cases in Japan from January to July was ¥72.21 billion, surpassing the amount for the whole of 2024, which had been the worst annual record, police data shows. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/02/japan/crime-legal/special-fraud-high/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesepolice #npa #socialmedia #fraud
Angela Antunovic
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Just learned that in Australia you can only put a ban on your credit for 21 days, and to extend it you need to prove you've been, or are likely to be, a victim of identity fraud.
This seems really dodgy to me. There is no reason that people should be able to access your credit info without your approval. They should need to ask every time. It should always be locked.