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Walmart has long been a facilitator of fraud on a mass scale, a ProPublica investigation found.
More than $1 billion in fraud losses were routed through the company’s financial services between 2013 and 2022.
(Published Jan. 2024)
https://www.propublica.org/article/walmart-financial-services-became-fraud-magnet-gift-cards-money-laundering?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky
#Walmart #Fraud #Scam #MoneyLaundering #Business #Crime #News
Walmart has long been a facilitator of fraud on a mass scale, a ProPublica investigation found.
More than $1 billion in fraud losses were routed through the company’s financial services between 2013 and 2022.
(Published Jan. 2024)
https://www.propublica.org/article/walmart-financial-services-became-fraud-magnet-gift-cards-money-laundering?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky
#Walmart #Fraud #Scam #MoneyLaundering #Business #Crime #News
Pam Bondi Dismissed Charges Against a Surgeon Who Falsified Vaccine Cards. It Emboldened Others With Similar Cases.
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A Utah surgeon’s victory in a vaccine fraud case has encouraged other “medical freedom” advocates to consider seeking leniency for similar charges. “This undermines every layer of the system that protects us from infectious disease,” an expert said.
https://www.propublica.org/article/pam-bondi-fake-covid-vaccine-cards-kirk-moore?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #COVID #Vaccines #Fraud #Law #Health #PublicHealth #Utah #PamBondi
Jan :rust: :ferris:
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Techbros dressing old scams in fancy new tech clothes in order to get away with their grift
Federal Wallet Inspectors @pluralistic
https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/13/uncle-sucker/
RE: https://mastodon.social/@iiradned/115715575032977887
"I'm not trying to say that new technologies never raise gnarly new legal questions, but what I am saying is that a lot of the time, the "new legal challenges" raised by technology are somewhere between 95-100% bullshit" - @pluralistic
I keep saying: Strip away the digital layers & nobody in their right mind would accept any of this. But breaking the law with an app is somehow different - you can steal, lie, hurt, spy, exploit, anything you want, regardless of legality.
David Gerard
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holy fuck #wirecard's jan marsalek (the russian spy) was trying to fund the development of #Telegram's blockchain #TON.
shit's bleak. don't use telegram. seriously don't install telegram.
cc @davetroy @Powerfromspace1 @davidgerard
https://www.ft.com/content/a2c153ba-b733-480e-991a-9623d40f5bda
#Eupol #libya #fraud #ukpol #russia #putin #fSB #GRU #JanMarsalek #Marsalek #crypto #cryptocurrency #Toncoin
Techbros dressing old scams in fancy new tech clothes in order to get away with their grift
Federal Wallet Inspectors @pluralistic
https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/13/uncle-sucker/
RE: https://mastodon.social/@iiradned/115715575032977887
"I'm not trying to say that new technologies never raise gnarly new legal questions, but what I am saying is that a lot of the time, the "new legal challenges" raised by technology are somewhere between 95-100% bullshit" - @pluralistic
I keep saying: Strip away the digital layers & nobody in their right mind would accept any of this. But breaking the law with an app is somehow different - you can steal, lie, hurt, spy, exploit, anything you want, regardless of legality.
David B. Himself
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Do Kwon, the South Korean cryptocurrency entrepreneur behind two digital currencies that lost an estimated $40 billion in 2022, was sentenced on Thursday to 15 years in prison. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/12/world/crime-legal/crypto-crash-do-kwon-15-year-sentence/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #crimelegal #dokwon #cryptocurrencies #fraud #us #southkorea
holy fuck #wirecard's jan marsalek (the russian spy) was trying to fund the development of #Telegram's blockchain #TON.
shit's bleak. don't use telegram. seriously don't install telegram.
cc @davetroy @Powerfromspace1 @davidgerard
https://www.ft.com/content/a2c153ba-b733-480e-991a-9623d40f5bda
#Eupol #libya #fraud #ukpol #russia #putin #fSB #GRU #JanMarsalek #Marsalek #crypto #cryptocurrency #Toncoin
Senator Demands Federal Agencies Halt Small Business Contracts, Citing Investigation of Native Hawaiian Firm
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Joni Ernst, chair of the Senate Small Business Committee, sent letters to 22 federal agencies saying the no-bid contracts granted through a Small Business Administration program are a “fraud magnet.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/sb8a-native-hawaiian-republican-senate-oversight?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Do Kwon, the South Korean cryptocurrency entrepreneur behind two digital currencies that lost an estimated $40 billion in 2022, was sentenced on Thursday to 15 years in prison. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/12/world/crime-legal/crypto-crash-do-kwon-15-year-sentence/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #crimelegal #dokwon #cryptocurrencies #fraud #us #southkorea
The four suspected masterminds behind a series of robberies in the Tokyo metropolitan area last year purchased X accounts multiple times to recruit people for "dark" part-time jobs, investigative sources said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/08/japan/crime-legal/masterminds-tokyo-robberies-x/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesepolice #organizedcrime #fraud #theft #yamibaito #gangs
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Concept picture for a sarcastic video game about the Paris Olympics. Don't do fraud, kids. #turnstyle for @pixel_dailies #pixelart #pixel_dailies #ドット絵 #parismetro #punk #videogame #paris #fraud #pixel #art #parisolympics
Concept picture for a sarcastic video game about the Paris Olympics. Don't do fraud, kids. #turnstyle for @pixel_dailies #pixelart #pixel_dailies #ドット絵 #parismetro #punk #videogame #paris #fraud #pixel #art #parisolympics
Thailand seized assets worth more than $300 million, including shares in a major regional energy company, and issued arrest warrants for 42 people in a high-profile push against regional scam networks. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/04/asia-pacific/crime-legal/thailand-assets-arrest-scams/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #crimelegal #thailand #fraud #cambodia #myanmar #southeastasia
Alex Akselrod
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#NativeAmericaCalling: A new wave of resistance against #Trans #Native relatives
Wednesday, March 5, 2025
"Trans #NativeAmericans face a new wave of #resistance
"Iowa is testing new legal limits as the first state to remove gender identity as a protected class in the state’s civil rights code.
"The Trump administration is also removing transgender service personnel from the military. And the State Department is using existing law against #fraud to bar foreign #TransgenderAthletes from entering the country, something critics worry could be used to ban any trans traveler.
"After years of progress, Native American trans residents are facing a major rollback of favorable laws and policies. Tune in to hear about the current public climate and what might be in store for the future."
Listen:
https://soundcloud.com/indianz/two-spirit-ncai-ecws2025
Spotify link:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6dtU6nDFD0f7eupqihE4Rg?go=1&sp_cid=b834467a3894c08ce4d3b77ae608fd50&utm_source=embed_player_p&utm_medium=desktop&nd=1&dlsi=1452335958d041a6
#Resist #ResistFascism #ResistColonialism #GBLTQRights #NativeAmericans #USPol #Decolonization #Decolonize
Tokyo's Metropolitan Police Department has added a new feature to its Digi Police crime prevention app that blocks incoming calls from international numbers and those believed to have been used for special fraud. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/01/japan/tokyo-police-app-fraud-block/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #japanesepolice #mpd #apps #fraud
'We charged $100 a month for an AI that was really just two guys surviving on pizza' says the co-founder of a company now valued at $1 billion
"We'd manually dial in as 'Fred from Fireflies.ai'", Udotong continues. "We'd sit there silently, take detailed notes, and send them 10 minutes later."