#Tag · bonfire.cafe

🚨"#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

The Japan Times

@thejapantimes@mastodon.social · last week

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

The Japan Times

@thejapantimes@mastodon.social · last week

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

The Japan Times

@thejapantimes@mastodon.social · 2 weeks ago

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 boosted

Oliver Sampson

@oliversampson@sigmoid.social · 2 weeks ago

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.

2/2

Cory Doctorow boosted

Oliver Sampson

@oliversampson@sigmoid.social · 2 weeks ago

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...

1/2

Oliver Sampson

@oliversampson@sigmoid.social · 2 weeks ago

1/2

Oliver Sampson

@oliversampson@sigmoid.social replied · 2 weeks ago

The article had a provocative title: "The optimal amount of fraud is non-zero",

https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/optimal-amount-of-fraud/

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.

2/2

Oliver Sampson

@oliversampson@sigmoid.social · 2 weeks ago

1/2

The Japan Times

@thejapantimes@mastodon.social · 2 weeks ago

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 Japan Times

@thejapantimes@mastodon.social · 3 weeks ago

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 boosted

Keira (She/Her)

@keira_reckons@aus.social · 4 weeks ago

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.

#privacy #dataSecurity #Fraud

Keira (She/Her)

@keira_reckons@aus.social · 4 weeks ago

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.

#privacy #dataSecurity #Fraud

Keira (She/Her)

@keira_reckons@aus.social replied · 4 weeks ago

But don't worry, if you ever are a victim of fraud, it will be somehow your fault, for not being personally aware of the location of every single piece of data about you.

It will never be blamed on, say, Equifax or Optus for having terrible security and refusing to delete data they no longer need. Or the banking system for refusing to check account names. Or politicians for refusing to learn anything about the laws they pass.

#privacy #dataSecurity #Fraud

Keira (She/Her)

@keira_reckons@aus.social · 4 weeks ago

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.

#privacy #dataSecurity #Fraud