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How scams work, who they target, and what to do — explained in plain English.
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Sumit Kumar Singh, already in prison for elder fraud, pleaded guilty to a new mail fraud plot run from a contraband phone that targeted a 93-year-old.
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Sefton Olivair Stewart, 41, of Montego Bay, Jamaica, got 72 months for a fake lottery scam that made 28 victims pay 'taxes and fees,' taking $3.4M.
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FTC and DOJ sued REPS & Company and executives Ryan Pancheri, Brian Archibald and Nicholas Totagrande, alleging they beat ticket limits at 83,500 events.
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Parker James Wilde, 29, of Draper, Utah, is charged with securities and wire fraud over 'done-for-you' Amazon stores and crypto trading pitches.
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Marco Giovanni Santarelli, 57, of Laguna Niguel, Calif., got 33 months for a Norada Capital note scheme that cost 400+ investors about $63 million.
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Laquan Williams, 42, of Florham Park, N.J., got 200 months for sending imposters into banks and cashing stolen checks, with over $30M in intended losses.
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LaMar Javis Burgess and son LaMar Dazjar Burgess pleaded guilty to filing 300+ false returns seeking $9.2M, charging clients a $10,000 fee per refund.
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Brett Blackman, 43, of Johnson County, Kan., got 19 years for running DMERx, a platform that generated bogus doctors' orders for braces billed to Medicare.
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Suchit Patel is charged with organized criminal activity after Friendswood police recovered $401,565 in gold, silver and cash from a Richmond home.
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Trevor Uhls, 29, pleaded guilty to wire fraud and money laundering in a $3.8M storage-unit Ponzi hitting 60-plus investors.
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PA AG Dave Sunday sued Sean Walters, Charles Spencer and affiliated LLCs over a rent-to-own scheme that allegedly sold homes the defendants did not own.
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Kuan Tsou, 28, got a five-year split sentence and $211,000 restitution after an Alabama pig-butchering crypto courier sting.
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Kai Chun Hu, 24, is charged with aiding theft by swindle after a Carver County sting over a $91,825 gold pickup tied to fake Microsoft and FTC callers.
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Joshua Wander, founder of 777 Partners, pleaded guilty to wire and securities fraud in a scheme prosecutors say topped $500 million.
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Jerrod Lochmiller and Christina Linden face wire fraud and tax charges over sites that allegedly took $6M for fake IDs never sent.
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Jeremy Cushing got 95 months; four co-defendants were sentenced for using fake IDs to drain casino and sports-betting accounts.
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Ohio AG sued Danile Toland and The Metal Roof Company over alleged unfinished and defective roofs; losses exceed $60,000.
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Philadelphia tax preparer Tenia A. Thompson is charged over alleged bogus pandemic loans and false returns for 100+ clients. She is presumed innocent.
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Shenghan Jin, 27, got 27 months for picking up gold in an online investment scam that cost a Belleville, Ill., man about $2.5 million.
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Houston doctor Joseph A. Montes, 66, is charged with billing a federal COVID program for office visits never provided. He is presumed innocent.
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Jonathan Spalletta, 36, was convicted of hacking crypto exchange Uranium Finance for $50M+; prosecutors say he spent millions on Magic and Pokémon cards.
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Jael Watts and Luis Pino-Copete were convicted of using stolen identities, even dead people's, to seek $13M meant for elderly and homeless people.
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A North Carolina judge ordered Holly Christina Photography and owners Holly and Christopher Ayscue to deliver wedding photos and pay about $1.7 million.
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The SEC alleges Himanshu Jindal posed as a U.S. CPA on a freelance site and sold a public company a fake audit. He has not been found liable.
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Kalder founder Gökçe Güven pleaded guilty to securities fraud over fake revenue shown to investors. The SEC has now sued her and Kalder Inc.
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A Collin County court found Rubinsky Roofing and owner Gilad Rubinsky liable for 27 DTPA violations, ordering $1.52M in penalties and a restitution fund.
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Brian Mitchell, 44, of Ann Arbor got 33 months for a commodities fraud that cost 128 investors $2.7M, including a church promised a 72% annual return.
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Zishan Zeng, 58, of Duluth, Ga., was arrested in a Paulding County sting tied to a fake FDIC scam that cost a senior over $50,000. She's presumed innocent.
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Xiangbo Sun, 24, is charged after a Michigan sting at the home of a woman who lost nearly $500,000 to fake FTC callers. He is presumed innocent.
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Patricia Joanna Almonte-Frías and Rineldys Feliciano Díaz-Cuevas were extradited on charges in an alleged sextortion scheme. Both are presumed innocent.
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