Mirror Trading International’s Cornelius Johannes Steynberg and his $3.4 Billion USD Default Judgement
Some of you may have heard that students in UAB's Investigating Online Crimes class have been researching Crypto Investment Scam websites. You can find a list of some of the sites we've ...
Watching a Crypto Investment Scam WhatsApp Group
If your online accounts are like mine, almost every day I'm "force joined" to a new Telegram group where a crypto investment scammer tries to tell everyone how great their scam investment ...
SIM Swapping, Crypto Theft, and Sentencing in the United States
As you know from the title of my blog, "CyberCrime & Doing Time," I'm very interested in cybercrime and the criminal justice system. This week I've been looking at SIM Swapping cases ...
The new DOJ Law Enforcement Crypto Reports (TL;DR)
TL;DR? Good news! I read them for you! On 15SEP2022, the Department of Justice released their report "The Role of Law Enforcement in Detecting, Investigating, and Prosecuting Criminal Activity Related to Digital Assets" ...
Chidozie Collins Obasi – COVID Fraud & Work at Home Scams
On September 9, 2022, the FBI's Philadelphia office asked for help locating Chidozie Collins Obasi. OBASI is charged with being part of a conspiracy to steal more than $30 Million related to ...
Three UK-based Nigerian BEC Scammers Used Construction Intelligence Service to Target Victims
On 10AUG2022 three Nigerians were extradited from the UK to the US to face charges related to their roles in conducting Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks against a number of US-based businesses.43-year ...
Please stop calling all Crypto Scams "Pig Butchering!"
Lately there has been a media-driven craze in the fraud community to call every crypto-investment scam "Pig Butchering." I hope you will join me in canceling that term after you read this ...
Nigerian Money Transfer Company Linked to Romance Scam Money Laundering
On July 7, 2022, the US Attorney for the Northern District of Texas announced that Ping Express had been found guilty. Prior to this, their CEO Anslem Oshionebo*, their COO Opeyemi Odeyale ...
That Job Your Co-Worker Emailed You About? Yeah … No.
My niece, Anna, is a school teacher in the Birmingham Public School system. Another teacher in the system got phished and the phisher sent an email to a bunch of other teachers, ...
Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine and CISA/FBI’s New Era of Transparency
BLUF: Bottom Line Up FrontI want to start this post with the most important thing right up top:The CISA.gov/Shields-Up page starts with this statement. PLEASE take it seriously, and escalate to your ...
