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Baiting Guru Joined: 07 Jul 2006 Posts: 5727

A nice CNN article on scamming

http://sponsorcontent.cnn.com/interactive/amazon/sneaky-pete/

Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2018 3:45 am

Sad lads

Full story clicky

Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2018 11:15 pm

Long but interesting article about a romance scammer and his victims. All involved, including the scammer, are intelligent and aware people. The article also brings home the difficulty of putting this type of criminal behind bars.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/04/our-time-com-con-man/554057/

Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2018 1:32 am

I'm still reading this, but...wow.

Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2018 12:55 pm

https://www.wxyz.com/news/local-news/investigations/crimes-of-the-heart-the-big-business-of-online-romance-scams

Quote:

Debby Montgomery is a former air force intelligence officer, who was trained to keep national secrets. She’s also a former bank executive who was trained to detect fraud.

“It’s not what you know. It’s what your heart is telling you. I don’t know. You can’t turn your heart off sometimes,” said Montgomery.

She fell head over heels for a romance scam, and has thousands of pages of love letters to prove it.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-04-05/online-romance-scams/9622066

Quote:

Domestic violence and online romance scams use similar psychological tricks

Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2018 8:04 am

RIP R. Lee Ermey

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/r-lee-ermey-dies-actor-232811224.html

Semper Fi Gunny.

Baiting Guru Joined: 19 Mar 2007 Posts: 2628

I heard a programme on World Service this morning on romance scammers. It looked at how the victims were drawn in, groomed.
BBC world service.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cswrjw

Posted: Wed May 09, 2018 7:41 pm

Not had a version of this in my 'catcher' yet Smile

https://www.indiatoday.in/fyi/story/delhi-crime-branch-father-son-con-artists-sell-rice-puller-nasa-drdo-1229162-2018-05-08

Posted: Fri May 11, 2018 7:07 pm

One reason we don't send ID documents -- fake or otherwise -- to lads.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/us-officials-discover-hungary-passport-fraud-scheme/2018/05/10/5b4694ea-54a5-11e8-a6d4-ca1d035642ce_story.html?utm_term=.b6f16459116f

Posted: Tue May 22, 2018 1:28 am

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/21/obituaries/robert-indiana-love-pop-art-dies.html

Robert Indiana, 89, Who Turned ‘Love’ Into Enduring Art, Is Dead

Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2018 4:54 pm

Another gone too soon.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/08/business/media/anthony-bourdain-dead.html

Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2018 2:46 am

^ I'll miss him.

Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2018 11:07 pm

Every little helps''''''

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-44445436

Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2018 1:48 am

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/74-arrested-coordinated-international-enforcement-operation-targeting-hundreds-individuals

Quote:

Among those arrested on federal charges in BEC schemes include:

Following an investigation by the FBI and the U.S. Secret Service, 23 individuals were charged in the Southern District of Florida with laundering at least $10 million from proceeds of BEC scams, including eight people charged in an indictment unsealed last week in Miami. These eight defendants are alleged to have conspired to launder proceeds from numerous BEC scams, totaling at least approximately $5 million, including approximately $1.4 million from a victim corporation in Seattle, as well as various title companies and a law firm.
Following an investigation led by the FBI with the assistance of the IRS Criminal Investigation, Gloria Okolie and Paul Aisosa, both Nigerian nationals residing in Dallas, Texas, were charged in an indictment filed on June 6 in the Southern District of Georgia. According to the indictment, they are alleged to have victimized a real estate closing attorney by sending the lawyer a spoofing email posing as the seller and requesting that proceeds of a real estate sale in the amount of $246,000 be wired to Okolie’s account. They are charged with laundering approximately $665,000 in illicit funds. The attorney experienced $130,000 in losses after the bank was notified of the fraud and froze $116,000.
Adeyemi Odufuye aka “Micky,” “Micky Bricks,” “Yemi,” “GMB,” “Bawz” and “Jefe,” 32, and Stanley Hugochukwu Nwoke, aka Stanley Banks,” “Banks,” “Hugo Banks,” “Banky,” and “Jose Calderon,” 27, were charged in a seven-count indictment in the District of Connecticut in a BEC scheme involving an attempted loss to victims of approximately $2.6 million, including at least $440,000 in actual losses to one victim in Connecticut. A third co-conspirator Olumuyiwa Yahtrip Adejumo, aka “Ade,” “Slimwaco,” “Waco,” “Waco Jamon,” “Hade,” and “Hadey,” 32, of Toledo, Ohio, pleaded guilty on April 20 to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Odufuye was extradited from the United Kingdom to the United States and on Jan. 3, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft. Nwoke was extradited to the United States from Mauritius on May 25, marking the first extradition in over 15 years from Mauritius. His case is pending.
Richard Emem Jackson, aka Auwire, 23, of Lagos, Nigeria, was charged in an indictment filed on May 17 in the District of Massachusetts with two counts of unlawful possession of a means of identification as part of a larger fraud scheme. According to the indictment, on two occasions in 2017, Jackson is alleged to have possessed the identifications of two victims with the intent to commit wire fraud conspiracy. In another case being prosecuted in the District of Massachusetts, a 25-year-old Fort Lauderdale, Florida man was indicted in federal court in Boston on June 6 on one count of money laundering conspiracy. According to the indictment, the individual was part of a conspiracy that engaged in wire fraud. It is alleged that in early 2018, the defendant’s co-conspirators gained access to email accounts belonging to a Massachusetts real estate attorney and sent emails to recipients in Massachusetts that “spoofed” the real estate attorney’s account in an attempt to cause the email recipient to transfer nearly $500,000, which was intended to be used for payment in connection with a real estate transaction, to a shell account belonging to a money mule recruited and controlled by the defendant.

Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2018 8:25 am

This guy is on BBC Rip Off Britain as I type. Tue 19th June 09:25.

https://www.facebook.com/oneeyed.jack.1291

'scamming the scammer' hmm, but he does do good work. Getting bank account details and reporting them to the banks and using UK Law to recover some people's money.

Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2018 8:38 pm

Sad news for fans of the Blues Brothers.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/blues-brothers-guitarist-matt-guitar-murphy-dead-at-88-w521611

Who can forget:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqA6OxcnzEs

Baiting Guru Joined: 31 Jan 2007 Posts: 12237

^ And this...

https://youtu.be/9GnG7R93hfw?t=222

Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2018 11:28 pm

R.I.P Old Man

https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/25/entertainment/pawn-stars-the-old-man-richard-harrison-dead/index.html

Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2018 10:48 am

https://www.snopes.com/ap/2018/06/29/harlan-ellison-science-fiction-master-dies-age-84/

Harlan Ellison 1934 - 2018

AVE ATQUE VALE

Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2018 6:04 pm

http://www.wmur.com/article/police-woman-admits-swapping-items-in-scammers-shipment/22029218

Quote:

Police said that a business owner contacted police after an international scammer hacked a Wolfeboro business account to buy a computer.

The scammers then offered a "job opportunity" online for someone to pick up the computer in Laconia and ship it overseas.

Police said Jennifer Wozmak answered the advertisement, agreeing to pick up the package and send it on.

But she never sent the laptop, instead allegedly sending nothing but magazines to the scammers instead.

Wozmak is now facing charges.

The chief said this happens a lot.

"What they want you to do is essentially be a straw man in a scam. They may wave money to pick up an item and move it to another location. Don't do it," Rondeau said.

Police said Wozmak admitted that she sold the computer and kept the money.

She eventually turned herself in.

Police said Granite Staters should be on guard.

"The long and short of it is if you have any questions and you think something might not be legitimate, pick up your phone and call your local police department and ask to talk to an officer and he will help you work through that, there is no harm in that,” Rondeau said.

Police said Wozmak had no affiliation with the original scammer, other than the advertisement she saw online.

Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2018 12:59 pm

https://www.cbr.com/comics-industry-reacts-steve-ditko-dead/

Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2018 1:16 pm

I'm glad this isn't being posted as an obituary. Spend some time here and you can see the true evil in people. Efforts like this are a good reminder of what people can accomplish when they come together (like here).

http://www.thisisinsider.com/thai-cave-boys-rescue-mission-underway-2018-7

Quote:

ALIVE: All 12 boys and their coach are safely out of the Thai caves after a 17-day ordeal that gripped the world

Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2018 7:44 pm

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/16/obituaries/aretha-franklin-dead.html

Quote:

Aretha Franklin, universally acclaimed as the “Queen of Soul” and one of America’s greatest singers in any style, died on Thursday at her home in Detroit. She was 76.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vet6AHmq3_s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FOUqQt3Kg0

Master Baiter Joined: 09 Dec 2009 Posts: 117

^^^^ R.I.P. Aretha! Crying or Very sad

Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2018 5:06 pm

^^ What you want, you know she had it! What you need, you KNOW she had it!

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