Internet Fraud and Scams News

East Bay Real Estate Agent Sentenced To More Than Six Years In Prison For Multimillion Dollar Property Scheme Related To Fraudulent Lawsuits SAN FRANCISCO – Robert Jacobsen was sentenced today to 78 months in prison […] Read More

Federal Jury Convicts Former Logan County Schools Superintendent on Charges Relating to Fraud Scheme CHARLESTON, W.Va. – United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced today that a federal jury sitting in Charleston returned unanimous guilty verdicts […] Read More

Real Estate Developer, Wife, Charged with Tax Evasion John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that on August 29, 2018, a federal grand jury in New Haven returned a […] Read More

Vendors, Consultants, And School Administrator Charged In Wide-Ranging Scheme To Defraud Federal “E Rate” Subsidy Program Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney, Assistant Director […] Read More

22 Charged With Smuggling Millions of Dollars of Counterfeit Luxury Goods From China Into the United States Defendants Trafficked Items that Included Fake Louis Vuitton and Tory Burch Handbags, Michael Kors Wallets, Hermes Belts and […] Read More

Israeli-Moroccan Man Sentenced to 43 Months in Prison in International Business E-Mail Compromise Scheme Fraud Scam Defrauded Companies of Millions of Dollars WASHINGTON – Harry Meir Mimoun Amar, a resident and citizen of Israel and […] Read More

Jamaican Woman Sentenced for Lottery Scam Targeting Elderly Victims ALEXANDRIA, Va. – A Jamaican citizen was sentenced today to six years in prison for orchestrating a lottery fraud that scammed elderly victims out of approximately […] Read More

Jury convicts cybercriminal for hacking universities ATLANTA – Olayinka Olaniyi, a citizen of Nigeria, was convicted by a federal jury on August 9, 2018, after a three-day trial, on charges of conspiracy to commit wire […] Read More

3M Company Agrees to Pay $9.1 Million to Resolve Allegations that It Supplied the United States with Defective Dual-Ended Combat Arms Earplugs COLUMBIA, South Carolina —- United States Attorney for the District of South Carolina […] Read More

Two Members of Billion-Dollar Venezuelan Money Laundering Scheme Arrested Two alleged participants in a billion-dollar international scheme to launder funds embezzled from Venezuelan state-owned oil company PDVSA using Miami, Florida real estate and sophisticated false-investment […] Read More