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Multiple call centers across Europe controlled by a criminal organization involved in online investment fraud were taken down this week following a cross-border investigation started in June 2022. Law enforcement from Bulgaria, Cyprus, Germany, and Serbia found that suspects operating out of these call centers tricked victims into investing large amounts of money in fake cryptocurrency schemes, also known as 'Pig Butchering' cryptocurrency scams.
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In brief Business email compromise continues to be a multibillion-dollar threat, but it's evolving, with the FBI and other federal agencies warning that cybercriminals have started using spoofed emails to steal shipments of physical goods - in this case, food. Along with the Food and Drug Administration's Office of Criminal Investigations and the US Department of Agriculture, the FBI said several US food manufacturers have already fallen victim to scams, many of which involved fake orders for hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of a single item: powdered milk.
Scammers have scammed their fellow cybercriminals out of more than $2.5 million on three dark web forums alone over the last 12 months, according to Sophos researchers. In a Black Hat Europe session, Sophos threat hunters detailed their investigation, which examined scams on two well-established Russian-language marketplaces, Exploit and XSS. They also looked at BreachForums, which launched in April 2022 after a Europol-led operation shut down the earlier version of the stolen-data souk, RaidForums.
Giving Elon Musk a follow on Twitter? You might be shortlisted by scammers looking to defraud Elon's newest followers. New Musk followers are being added to a "Deal of the Year" list on Twitter that lures them into depositing small crypto amounts into the attackers' wallet with the false promise of receiving up to 5000 Bitcoin in return.
Twitter accounts giving Elon Musk a follow are being targeted in a crypto giveaway scam dubbed 'Freedom Giveaway.' [...]
Four men suspected of plotting to commit wire fraud and identity theft have been arrested and now face extradition to America. It is alleged they conspired to break into US companies' servers, steal people's personally identifiable information, use that info to file fraudulent tax returns to Uncle Sam, and collect victims' tax refunds.
Spanish National Police have dismantled a cybercrime organization that used fake investment sites to defraud over €12.3 million from 300 victims across Europe. The threat actors then laundered money stolen from victims by moving it from Spanish banks to foreign financial entities where the criminals hoped it was away from the authorities' scrutiny or tracing ability.
For the first time, the U.S. Department of Justice seized seven domains that hosted websites linked to "Pig butchering" scams, where fraudsters trick victims of romance scams into investing in cryptocurrency via fake investment platforms. While originating from Asia, pig butchering scams have spread globally after cryptocurrency scammers realized that users of dating apps and social media sites make for easy targets after building trust using various social engineering tactics.
Over the past year, we've had the unfortunate need to warn our readers not once, but twice, about a scam we've dubbed CryptoRom, a portmanteau word formed from the terms "Cryptocurrency" and "Romance scam". The "Romance" in a CryptoRom scam isn't tugging at your heart strings, but at your wallet strings.