Weekly Update – August 19th 2021
Those COVID-19 relief programs which certainly helped keep millions of Americans and businesses afloat during the pandemic, have unfortunately also been a spectacular bonanza for an array of international scam artists, including Russian mobsters, Chinese hackers, and Nigerian scammers. An estimated $87 million to $400 billion in unemployment benefits may have been lost to fraud; at least half of that is thought to have been stolen by foreign criminals. Many took… Read more