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Study: COVID-19 Fraud Reaches $100M

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losses from COVID-19 fraud and ID theft have reached nearly $100 million since the pandemic emerged in March, according to Reuters. The five most targeted states by the scams include the ones with the biggest populations: California, Florida, New York, Texas and Pennsylvania. Those cases have cost victims a total of $97.5

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Medical Equipment Cos Charged In $1.2B Healthcare Fraud

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authorities announced that they have charged a number of individuals in connection with one of the biggest healthcare frauds ever prosecuted in the nation. The fraud, which resulted in more than $1.2 Medicare’s anti-fraud unit announced that it took adverse administrative action against 130 DME companies that submitted over $1.7

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DOJ Works To Shut Down Over 300 Fraudulent Websites Exploiting Pandemic

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As part of its ongoing efforts to stop coronavirus-related fraud, the U.S. The enforcement action alleged Vietnam residents Thu Phan Dinh, Tran Khanh and Nguyen Duy Toan engaged in wire fraud to profit from the pandemic. Last week, SocialCatfish.com , an identity verification nonprofit, reported U.S.

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CFPB September 2016 complaint report highlights money transfer complaints, complaints from Pennsylvania consumers

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The CFPB has issued its September 2016 complaint report which highlights complaints about money transfers and complaints from consumers in Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia metro area. The percentage of mortgage complaints submitted by Pennsylvania consumers, 22 percent, was lower than the 25 percent national average.

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Time Tried, Panic Tested. The Forgotten Story of the First National Bank of Keystone

Jeff For Banks

The bank, First National Bank of Keystone, was $1.1 The Bank's Rise McConnell came to the bank in 1977 from McKeesport, Pennsylvania. And so went the birth of First National Bank of Keystone's meteoric rise. However, it seems unlikely that McConnell didn't orchestrate the fraud. They feared he would discover the fraud.

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Credit Unions Doing Cyber-Battle

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When hackers hit Pennsylvania-based fuel and convenience retailer Wawa, they made off with the credentials of potentially thousands of credit union members. That sounds ominous because it is, and CUs that don’t take identity fraud and cybertheft super seriously face losing more than what hackers steal.

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Victims Of Tech Support Scam Get Refunds

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The agency and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as well as the State of Connecticut claim the scam’s perpetrators, which ran under Click4Support and other names, harnessed advertising on search engines, such as Google , and website popups.