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APRIL 15, 2020

According to the FTC, there have been 18,235 reports of fraudulent activity or fraud attempts related to the coronavirus since Jan. million to fraud. The FTC says the top categories of these scams entail travel and vacation-related items, online shopping and bogus text messaging, along with “all kinds of imposters.”

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Securities and Exchange Commission ( SEC ) filed an “emergency action” against former NS8 Inc. which is based in Nevada, purportedly provides online retailers with fraud detection and prevention technology, according to the statement. 17) statement. Gottschall said in a statement.

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JUNE 29, 2020

District Court Judge James Mahan in the District of Nevada charged with violations of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO). Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and Britain’s National Cyber Security Centre found a wave of cyberattacks taking advantage of COVID-19 in the U.S.

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JUNE 25, 2020

Gareth David Long, a 41-year-old Las Vegas resident, was sentenced to 70 months in prison for fraud for stealing money from victims’ accounts, the Department of Justice said in a press release. Long pled guilty in November of 2019 to a scheme where he committed wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.

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JULY 27, 2016

Credit card fraud complaints in the U.S. ValuePenguin analyzed data collected by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and found that there were approximately 70,000 credit card fraud complaints submitted in 2015. At the state level, the number of credit card fraud complaints were much more pronounced. Across the U.S.,

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JUNE 3, 2016

Complainants in a Nevada lawsuit are accusing the owners of what’s believed to be a fake payments processing company of stealing millions of dollars from an online seller. That seller is beauty product retailer DermaKtive, which claims that a man committed fraud with the assistance of his mother and girlfriend.

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MAY 18, 2018

But the move towards bits and bytes is gathering steam in a bid to bring security to far flung transactions. Notarize, the notary public platform that allows for the remote notarization of documents online, said Thursday that it raised $20 million in a funding round that brings the tally of money raised, cumulatively, to $31 million.

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