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The ACFE is the world's largest anti-fraud organization and premier provider of anti-fraud training and education.
Austin, Texas
Joined June 2009
A man is facing allegations of defrauding the Nevada Department of Employment, Training, and Rehabilitation (DETR) and the California Employment Development Department (EDD). He faces a maximum penalty of 162 years in prison and a fine of $5,250,000.
news3lv.com
A man from Las Vegas made his initial court appearance Tuesday, facing allegations of defrauding the Nevada Department of Employment, Training, and Rehabilitati
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A D.C. resident pleaded guilty to $1,500,000 in Economic Injury Disaster Loans from the federal government.
wusa9.com
Jennifer May pleaded guilty for misappropriating funds that were given to her to pay for business expenses.
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German banks blocked PayPal payments totalling more than EUR 10 billion over fraud concerns.
reuters.com
German banks blocked PayPal payments totalling more than 10 billion euros ($11.7 billion) over fraud concerns, the Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper reported on Wednesday, without specifying its sources.
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The owner of a Chicago grocery store has been sentenced to three and a half years in federal prison for defrauding government nutrition programs of more than $8 million.
fox32chicago.com
The owner of a Chicago grocery store has been sentenced to three and a half years in federal prison for defrauding government nutrition programs of more than $8 million.
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The world’s largest anti-fraud organization has yesterday given a thumbs up for the Auditor-General’s (A-G) Dashboard, as it enables Malaysians to see real-time online updates on how government entities are resolving problems found during audits.
malaymail.com
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 22 — The world’s largest anti-fraud organisation has yesterday given a thumbs up for the Auditor-General’s (A-G) Dashboard, as it enables Malaysians to see...
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A federal judge has ordered CVS Health’s pharmacy benefit manager, Caremark, to pay nearly $290 million after a whistleblower accused the business of overcharging Medicare on prescription drugs more than a decade ago.
foxbusiness.com
Whistleblower Sarah Behnke's lawsuit leads to a $290 million judgment against CVS Caremark for overcharging Medicare on prescription drugs in 2013 and 2014.
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Hong Kong authorities have arrested two people suspected of misleading the government into entering a now-partly suspended HK $52.9 million contract to supply water bottled from mainland China to government offices in the city.
hongkongfp.com
Hong Kong authorities have arrested two people suspected of misleading the government into entering a now-partly suspended HK$52.9 million contract to supply water bottled from mainland China to go…
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Allstate is taking on a group of New York pharmacies and wholesalers, claiming they pulled off a $1.48 million scam against its no-fault auto insurance program.
insurancebusinessmag.com
Allstate says a network of New York pharmacies and wholesalers submitted $1.48 million in fraudulent no-fault claims
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Rapper Sean Kingston has been sentenced to three and a half years in federal prison in a million-dollar fraud scheme.
bbc.com
The "Beautiful Girls" singer and his mother didn't pay for goods including, a 232-inch LED TV and a bulletproof Cadillac.
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U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned four Mexican individuals and 13 Mexican companies linked to timeshare fraud led by the Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion.
home.treasury.gov
Scams Targeting U.S. Victims Produce Significant Revenue for CJNGWASHINGTON—Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned four Mexican individuals...
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Zelle was sued by New York Attorney General Letitia James, who said the electronic payment platform's refusal to adopt critical safety features enabled fraudsters to steal more than $1 billion from consumers.
reuters.com
Zelle was sued on Wednesday by New York Attorney General Letitia James, who said the electronic payment platform's refusal to adopt critical safety features enabled fraudsters to steal more than $1...
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The accused allegedly stole over $5 million from more than 400 victims — who were 84 years old on average — by posing as family members in distress over the phone.
boston.com
Four more have been charged but remained at-large as of Tuesday.
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Do Kwon, the South Korean cryptocurrency entrepreneur behind two digital currencies that lost an estimated $40 billion in 2022, pleaded guilty to two U.S. charges of conspiracy to defraud and wire fraud.
reuters.com
Do Kwon, the South Korean cryptocurrency entrepreneur behind two digital currencies that lost an estimated $40 billion in 2022, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to two U.S. charges of conspiracy to defraud...
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The U.S. District Court found that Dr. Akoto, a family medical practitioner submitted false claims to Medicare by billing for auricular stimulation (P-Stim) devices as if they were implantable neurostimulator devices.
foxbaltimore.com
A federal court has ordered a family medical practitioner in Takoma Park, Md., to pay over $1.4 million for fraudulent billing practices involving Medicare.The
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The scammers had taken video of Wozniak talking about bitcoin. "And then, they put a nice frame around it with a Bitcoin address, [saying] that if you sent him any amount of bitcoin, he would send you double that back.".
cbsnews.com
The computer inventor and co-founder of Apple is sounding the alarm about one of the great threats of this new Information Age: internet fraud. He talks about how he is fighting for the victims of...
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A U.S. federal judge sentenced a leader of a sprawling, pandemic-era food fraud plot in Minnesota to 28 years in prison. Abdiaziz Shafii Farah must also pay nearly $48 million in restitution.
nypost.com
Abdiaziz Shafii Farah, 36, faces potentially more years in prison at a later sentencing hearing after previously pleading guilty in a juror bribery case involving a bag of $120,000 in cash.
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Autumn Bardisa was arrested after allegedly treating 4,486 individuals since July 2023 at AdventHealth Palm Coast Parkway while lying about being a registered nurse.
nypost.com
The scam nurse allegedly tricked her hospital employer for two years by providing a former classmate's license number and her ruse was only discovered when she was up for a promotion, cops said.
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A Facebook Marketplace fraudster who swindled his victims out of e-bikes, phones and a Land Rover has been jailed for two years and three months. Adam Coleman used a fake banking app to trick unsuspecting sellers into handing over expensive items.
bbc.com
Adam Coleman swindled unsuspecting sellers out of e-bikes, phones and a Land Rover.
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Britons are being tricked into depositing their nest-egg cash, only for the money to be siphoned off by fraudsters who are impersonating a financial company – in this case, the money transfer company Wise.
theguardian.com
People tricked into depositing cash which is then siphoned off by fraudsters impersonating financial firm Wise and others
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