Criminals in Southeast Asia are using inexpensive artificial intelligence tools to target bigger pools of potential victims at high speed, senior officials at Interpol say. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/10/asia-pacific/crime-legal/ai-scam-centers-asia-victims/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #crimelegal #ai #fraud #southeastasia #myanmar #cambodia #organizedcrime #asia
A look inside an abandoned scam compound in Cambodia reveals the brutality and banality of fraud. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/07/asia-pacific/crime-legal/inside-abandoned-cambodia-scam-center/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #crimelegal #cambodia #gangs #fraud #romancescams
Prosecutors have sought a life sentence for Toshiya Fujita, a senior member of a crime ring called "Luffy" that is behind a series of robbery and fraud cases across the country. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/05/japan/crime-legal/life-sentence-request-luffy/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesecourts #fraud #theft #philippines #luffy #gangs
A total of 337 police officers and personnel were disciplined across Japan in 2025, according to a National Police Agency tally released Thursday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/05/japan/crime-legal/npa-member-discipline/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesepolice #npa #powerharassment #fraud
Prudential Life Insurance will suspend sales of new insurance policies following the discovery of widespread financial misconduct involving current and former employees. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/02/04/companies/prudential-life-suspension-sales/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #prudentiallife #lifeinsurance #insurance #corporategovernance #fraud #businessethics
Wouter Tebbens ⁂
boosted
Pork chart. Today's cartoon by Mariano Ruszaj. More cartoons: https://www.cartoonmovement.com/
Pork chart. Today's cartoon by Mariano Ruszaj. More cartoons: https://www.cartoonmovement.com/
Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority has begun an on-site probe of Chubu Electric Power’s headquarters over earthquake risk data fraud linked to the company’s Hamaoka nuclear power plant. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/26/japan/chubu-electric-hq-inspection/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #chubuelectric #nuclearenergy #hamaoka #fraud #shizuoka #energy
Overrun with AI slop, cURL scraps bug bounties to ensure "intact mental health"
The onslaught includes LLMs finding bogus vulnerabilities and code that won't compile.
https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/01/overrun-with-ai-slop-curl-scraps-bug-bounties-to-ensure-intact-mental-health/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
@arstechnica that could plausibly be made out to be #fraud?
The owner of the #confabulation machine generating false claims in an effort to obtain money from cURL.
Given knowledge of the owner it doesn't even look hard to prove.
IANAL and this is not legal advice.
#Trump is literally issuing orders to the #DOJ right now
Trump says he hopes AG #PamBondi is 'looking at' #JackSmith as the former special counsel testifies on Capitol Hill
“Hopefully the Attorney General is looking at what he’s done, including some of the crooked and corrupt witnesses that he was attempting to use in his case against me. The whole thing was a Democrat SCAM — A big price should be paid by them for what they have put our Country through!”Trump posted.
Rep #MaryScanlon (D-PA) is finally getting #JackSmith to get into the nitty gritty of the #evidence. Her questioning allowed Smith to discuss evidence given under oath that #Pennsylvania officials told #Trump unequivocally that he had lost the election in their state & that the #ConspiracyTheories he was peddling about PA were false & proven to be false. This goes directly to Trump’s knowledge that he was perpetrating a #fraud upon the American people.
#law #House #Judiciary #SeditiousConspiracy
Trending Bot
boosted
New Mexico’s lawsuit accuses three Texas oil executives of pocketing revenue from oil and gas wells and offloading cleanup costs to the public.
A 2024 ProPublica and Capital & Main investigation uncovered some of their companies’ business dealings.
https://www.propublica.org/article/new-mexico-oil-orphan-wells-cleanup?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
New Mexico’s lawsuit accuses three Texas oil executives of pocketing revenue from oil and gas wells and offloading cleanup costs to the public.
A 2024 ProPublica and Capital & Main investigation uncovered some of their companies’ business dealings.
https://www.propublica.org/article/new-mexico-oil-orphan-wells-cleanup?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Trending Bot
boosted
The DOJ indicted “Bitcoin Jesus” Roger Ver in one of the largest-ever crypto tax fraud cases.
Those familiar with the case said the evidence was “rock solid” and that prosecutors were confident of a conviction.
Then Donald Trump won a second term.
https://www.propublica.org/article/bitcoin-jesus-roger-ver-tax-evastion-friends-of-trump-doj?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Trump #DOJ #Law #Tax #Crime #Fraud #Billionaire #Crypto #Bitcoin
The DOJ indicted “Bitcoin Jesus” Roger Ver in one of the largest-ever crypto tax fraud cases.
Those familiar with the case said the evidence was “rock solid” and that prosecutors were confident of a conviction.
Then Donald Trump won a second term.
https://www.propublica.org/article/bitcoin-jesus-roger-ver-tax-evastion-friends-of-trump-doj?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Trump #DOJ #Law #Tax #Crime #Fraud #Billionaire #Crypto #Bitcoin
A court has given a man a suspended sentence for transporting a then-high school student to Myanmar last year to have him engage in fraud despite knowing that the boy had been kidnapped. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/20/japan/crime-legal/student-myanmar-sentence-court/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #miyagi #japanesecourts #myanmar #highschools #fraud #kidnappings
Fraudsters are increasingly impersonating company presidents and other senior executives to issue fake business instructions via email in Japan, the National Police Agency warns. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/19/japan/crime-legal/japan-ceo-emails-scams/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #fraud #japanesepolice #npa
Chewie
boosted
Personal #InfoSec heads up. This is my story of #identity theft. I hope it helps you avoid the hellish experience. In early December 2025, I fell for a very well-executed #phishing #fraud scam.
They pretended to be from security at my bank. They knew much more about me than I would ever expect. That was key to convincing me to stay on line, When I say “they” I’m talking about several individuals who role played (excellently) security, managers, customer representatives. I stretched out the conversation because something seemed off. I had no evidence. I don’t want to go into too much detail, but at one point I detected a slight hesitation or nervousness in one of their voices. I told them I needed a personal moment and put them on hold.
I called a guy at the bank who helps me with my retirement funds, told him the story and asked for help verifying what was going on. Within two minutes he said it was a hoax and he had real bank security on the phone with us. They wanted me to play along while they were online, looking for various clues and hoping to catch the bad guys in the act. It worked. The bad guys were in the process of transferring out everything in my accounts. It would have been a crushing DISASTER if I did not have the bank’s real security hoaxing the hoaxers! I lost nothing but time and personal esteem. The aftermath has been more painful.
It has been months since my complete identity information was stolen. I had to change every bank and credit account number, kill several email addresses I had used for decades, change all passwords, inform #SSA, #Medicare, Ibsurance companies… the whole package. I’m not done. I consider myself lucky, so far. It will never be over. I realize that protecting my identity is a constant battle.
I think it started when my info (OGE Form 450) was stolen when the #US government general administration office was hacked in 2008 (?) and virtually all employees’ financial disclosures were stolen. They gave us lifetime monitoring service which has been pretty good. It spotted and reported to me multiple breakins and data thefts over the years, including when my info was for sale on the “dark web”. I want to emphasize that I responded EVERY TIME. Nevertheless, my info from various thefts was obviously collated over time and now there is a good solid model of me for sale, complete with private information I thought I never disclosed.
This can easily happen to anyone, including you.
Everything I learned about personal infosec over the years — **advice I followed** — proved to be insufficient. I’m now looking into hardware passkeys, but that is not enough. I welcome professional #infosec and others to comment here. It is a teachable moment for all of us.
Personal #InfoSec heads up. This is my story of #identity theft. I hope it helps you avoid the hellish experience. In early December 2025, I fell for a very well-executed #phishing #fraud scam.
They pretended to be from security at my bank. They knew much more about me than I would ever expect. That was key to convincing me to stay on line, When I say “they” I’m talking about several individuals who role played (excellently) security, managers, customer representatives. I stretched out the conversation because something seemed off. I had no evidence. I don’t want to go into too much detail, but at one point I detected a slight hesitation or nervousness in one of their voices. I told them I needed a personal moment and put them on hold.
I called a guy at the bank who helps me with my retirement funds, told him the story and asked for help verifying what was going on. Within two minutes he said it was a hoax and he had real bank security on the phone with us. They wanted me to play along while they were online, looking for various clues and hoping to catch the bad guys in the act. It worked. The bad guys were in the process of transferring out everything in my accounts. It would have been a crushing DISASTER if I did not have the bank’s real security hoaxing the hoaxers! I lost nothing but time and personal esteem. The aftermath has been more painful.
It has been months since my complete identity information was stolen. I had to change every bank and credit account number, kill several email addresses I had used for decades, change all passwords, inform #SSA, #Medicare, Ibsurance companies… the whole package. I’m not done. I consider myself lucky, so far. It will never be over. I realize that protecting my identity is a constant battle.
I think it started when my info (OGE Form 450) was stolen when the #US government general administration office was hacked in 2008 (?) and virtually all employees’ financial disclosures were stolen. They gave us lifetime monitoring service which has been pretty good. It spotted and reported to me multiple breakins and data thefts over the years, including when my info was for sale on the “dark web”. I want to emphasize that I responded EVERY TIME. Nevertheless, my info from various thefts was obviously collated over time and now there is a good solid model of me for sale, complete with private information I thought I never disclosed.
This can easily happen to anyone, including you.
Everything I learned about personal infosec over the years — **advice I followed** — proved to be insufficient. I’m now looking into hardware passkeys, but that is not enough. I welcome professional #infosec and others to comment here. It is a teachable moment for all of us.
I have been reading a lot of reports that ICE is stealing from people. Everything from phones to jewelry, even reports of clothing gone missing from people held in custody of ICE.
There was one report, that said the car ICE was driving without plates was someone else's car that they had taken.
Cambodia’s arrest of alleged scam center kingpin Chen Zhi and his extradition to China was “not the end” of the Southeast Asian nation’s battle to stamp out transborder crimes, its foreign minister said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/14/asia-pacific/crime-legal/cambodia-crackdown-scam-mastermind/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #crimelegal #myanmar #cambodia #forcedlabor #fraud #organizedcrime