KatM, to random
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I'm dealing with my dying mother's financials. After years of giving her money every month for food and utilities, I've just discovered she's been donating thousands of dollars each year to a few viable charities and even more GOP PACs that she believed were charities helping veterans and young people in need. She's a Democrat. She had no idea what she was giving her money to and now I'm having to undo all of those automated debits. Check on your elder parents. Someone is probably scamming them.

KatM,
@KatM@mastodon.social avatar

Dear … please take a look at this thread. This is a story. So many seniors are being scammed out of their life savings. Look at the of scammers defrauding seniors on just this thread.

What is being done to protect them? Seems like a reasonable question deserving of some answers from our lawmakers and law enforcement.

skykiss, to random
@skykiss@sfba.social avatar

Word that George Santos has been indicted in EDNY

CNN Exclusive: Federal prosecutors have filed criminal charges against New York Rep. George Santos, the Republican whose astonishing pattern of lies, fraud and fabrications stunned even hardened politicos, according to three sources familiar with the matter.



https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/09/politics/george-santos-charged-justice-department/index.html

dgolumbia, to random

"'Banning new business models or technologies undermines American values.' This is why a16z is excited to announce they will be leading the seed round in the new firm, Ransomware4Cheap PyramidCo. Get in on the ground floor! Refer all your friends!" @molly0xfff https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/andreessen-horowitzs-state-of-crypto

skykiss, to random
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JeffDanielswpg, to random
@JeffDanielswpg@thecanadian.social avatar

Important to remember Kellyanne Conway is the 'birthmother' of 'alternative facts' and serial spreader of all-round falsehoods.

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/kellyanne-conway-cites-security-concerns-in-defense-of-secret-payments-to-serious-person-ginni-thomas/

skykiss, (edited ) to random
@skykiss@sfba.social avatar

Person with obligation to comply with gift tax law is the donor not the recipient. If it's a bribe done to influence an official act it is income to the recipient and not a gift. Did Crow file forms 702 annually for "gifts" over annual exclusion ranging from 10k to 16k in 2022?

  1. Can we stop wondering why Harland Crow was funneling wealth to a SCOTUS justice who was ruling in his favor on every case that reached him? Let's focus on the SCOTUS cases and the payments or gifts and see if they show a pattern that evidences that they were a quid pro quo.

  2. Nothing in the Constitution requires Thomas be impeached before he can be charged for bribery. Crow should be teed up for the grand jury once the investigation of his secret payments has been completed and shows any evidence that could support a bribery conviction.

  3. Drill down on and make him an offer he can't refuse: Testify against or spend 10 years in a federal prison.

skykiss, (edited )
@skykiss@sfba.social avatar

2/
When does the stench get bad enough that SCOTUS stops the cover-up and ends the corruption? This is on the Chief Justice to solve, plain and simple. Mom’s rent, family tuition, vacations and gifts — and secret? Any other government employee would be fired.

Again, Drill down on and make him an offer he can't refuse: Testify against or spend 10 years in a federal prison.

Also,
https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-harlan-crow-private-school-tuition-scotus

skykiss,
@skykiss@sfba.social avatar

4/ Clarence Thomas disclosed $1,200 in free car tires he received in 2002.

But he didn’t disclose:

How the hell can you defend Clarence “Coke Can” Thomas and these ? The ethically bankrupt Clarence, along with sexual predator Brett have destroyed the Supreme Court’s reputation and standing in the world.

beekir, to random

An eBay seller sent me a defective item and then eBay deleted my honest negative feedback about the transaction. Horray, eBay! 💩

RememberUsAlways, to random
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rjohnston, to britishcolumbia
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I got burned by this guy, David Smillie of . , BC I believe. Luckily it was a small amount for me, but I've connected to people who claim they've lost over $100,000! Now it looks like he's earned a charge for securities fraud in the amount of $13 million CAD.

"Crypto trading platform lied to customers and diverted their assets to gambling, BCSC alleges"

https://www.bcsc.bc.ca/about/media-room/news-releases/2023/38-crypto-trading-platform-lied-to-customers-and-diverted-their-assets-to-gambling-bcsc-alleges

deevybee, to random
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excellent update to COPE guidelines to allow for batch processing when papermills suspected https://publicationethics.org/resources/flowcharts/multi-article-paper-mill

1br0wn, to random
@1br0wn@eupolicy.social avatar

🇬🇧 “ministers are now expected to announce a voluntary agreement, with the tech industry pledging to take a more proactive approach to combating online rather than making companies responsible for compensation.”
https://on.ft.com/3oXrXxL

dgolumbia, to random

David Rosenthal (aka DSHR): "To sum up, permissionless technology is clever, but the economics of applying it to the real world are stupid for the reasons I published nearly 9 years ago. Centralization in the information ecosystem is a very serious problem, but it is driven by economics, not technology. So attempting to solve it with technology with inherent economies of scale is futile." https://blog.dshr.org/2023/04/crypto-my-part-in-its-downfall.html

qkslvrwolf, to random
@qkslvrwolf@mastodon.social avatar

As my company talks about in freight/the supply chain, I'm just beginning to think that fraud and corruption is reaching new heights in the US.

I, of course, blame the and oligarchs and s for

  1. weakening enforcement
  2. Holding up fraud as "good business, if you get away with it or pay less fine than you profit"
  3. de-regulation.
paul, to random
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Ohio man indicted for 2020 voter ; state has since left system that caught him

James Dalton Saunders, a 57-year-old attorney, voted in both Ohio &Florida in the 2020 and 2022 general , according to the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor's Office.

According to the state records &federal elections filings, he's a longtime &has donated more than $3,000 over the past to GOP candidates and PACs, including Donald Trump.

@sarahburris @RawStory @fawfulfan https://www.wcpo.com/news/state/state-ohio/ohio-man-indicted-for-2020-voter-fraud-state-has-since-left-system-that-caught-him

itnewsbot, to science
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Elizabeth Holmes gets bail extension one day before prison term start - Enlarge / Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes, alongside her partner B... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1934792

skykiss, (edited ) to random
@skykiss@sfba.social avatar

fraudster and notorious liar tucker carlson FIRED! Two possible reasons: He's a special counsel target or the insurers who have to shell out for Fox in suits refused to cover future claims related to his lies. Watch if he goes quiet.

Fox propaganda, How was tucker getting his daily Kremlin talking points? If he or his staff were getting them from someone connected to the Kremlin, those communications could be subject to 702 FISA collections directed at the source without a FISA Court order directed at Carlson.

LA Times: Notorious liar Carlson's exit is related to the discrimination lawsuit filed by Abby Grossberg, the producer Fox fired last month.

Carlson's senior executive producer Justin Wells has also been terminated, according to people familiar with the matter.

-up

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/04/24/business/tucker-carlson-fox-news#tucker-carlson-fox-news

skykiss, to random
@skykiss@sfba.social avatar

Russian agent Boris Epshteyn to be questioned for 2nd day by special counsel: Sources So that likely means he's being interviewed to avoid a grand jury appearance. It almost seems like he's doing a "Queen for a Day" interview.

I'm going to watch all the usual suspects closely. See who goes dark. With the grand jury seeming like it's getting close to the end of the line, I'm not going to be surprised if they charge soon. Smith may have gone to to the interview to assess how

Epshteyn retroactively claimed he was criminal suspect donald's lawyer when he was a campaign advisor. Back date the docs you criminal.

https://t.co/85m4uvzTyq

skykiss,
@skykiss@sfba.social avatar

2/
Cocaine Jr has gone quiet today after a long Tweet storm of multiple posts daily. He was my contemporaneous pick for who accompanied Boris Epshteyn to Prague. The Steele dossier assumed it was Michael Cohen. I thought it was Epshteyn and that Don Jr would have accompanied him.

Cocaine jr. speaks Czech. My guess is that they have a ton of intelligence on Epshteyn and I'm also guessing that whatever was planning to do with the stolen top secrets it involved the Russians and Boris got involved. If so, he's looking at life for espionage.

That would get him to take an invitation to save himself by telling Jack all his darkest secrets.

Don Jr. deserves watching. I think they got his mother who was getting talky. Epshteyn may be able to dance through the rain drops but Don Jr. going through a Cocaine withdrawal possibly in the lock up could be too unpredictable for the Kremlin to take a chance.

ChrisMayLA6, to random
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So, in the last election there were only 6 cases of electoral ( has reluctantly admitted). This from a population of over 45M

You'll be aware of the number of cases of fraud by MPs (from a population of 355) exceeds this in nominal terms & is vastly larger in proportional terms.

So, let be clear, is about voter suppression not fraud.

If the were interested in fraud they'd put their own house in order.

h/t Roland Hoskins/Bird site

Edent, to Banking
@Edent@mastodon.social avatar

🆕 blog! “Who can tell you what to do with your money?”

There's an incredibly distressing story in the BBC about a vulnerable elderly man who was conned out of his life savings. Fraud victim gets surprise £153,000 refund despite rules BBC News In the story, the heartless bank refused to refund the fraud victim due to an absurd technicality - the money was sent to…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/03/who-can-tell-you-what-to-do-with-your-money/

unattributed, to random

steal $8 million from users running trojanized apps

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-steal-8-million-from-users-running-trojanized-bitkeep-apps/

It just seems that the products are major targets for and that having to deal with having to deal with hacked is just the kind of thing that honest users don't need.

Fortunately this isn't a story where did anything wrong - but hopefully the trace the origin of the bad apps. There needs to be something done to protect their customers.

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