FBI POSTS WARNING AND WE COVER SOME OF THE LATEST BUSTS

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Cases of the FBI podcast, retired agents share
some of their most incredible cases. Let's begin. Oh, let's
do a little bit of summary of what the FBI
has been posting in the last week. And they have
a public service announcement that came out a few days ago.

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The FBI is warning the public that cyber criminals are
targeting users of employees self service websites owned by companies
and government of services, and cyber criminals are using search
engine advertisements to impersonate legitimate websites and steal victim information. Cybercrimes,
cyber criminals use fraudulent search engine advertisements to direct users

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to malicious websites to mimic the legitimate sites and appearance,
but steal log in credentials. Previously, cyber criminals primarily targeted
small business commercial bank accounts in account tank over schemes,
but have expanded to target payroll, unemployment programs, and health
safety these accounts with the goals stealing money through fraudulent
wire transactions. Again, they'll use a fraudulent URLP peers at

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the top of search results and mimics the legitimate business
URIL with minimal differences such as a minor misspelling. When
targets click on the fraudulent advertisement link, they're redirected to
a phishing website that closely mirrors a legitimate website. When
the target enters log in credentials, the cyber criminal intercepts
the credentials, So some of the tips they recommend as

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exercise caution when clicking on advertisements. Before clicking on an adversement,
check the URL to make sure the site is authentic,
tack the businesses uril directly into an Internet browser address
bar to access the official website instead of searching for it.
And use an ad blocking extension when performing Internet searches.
Most Internet browsers allow a user to add extensions, including

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extensions to block advertisements. These ad blockers can be turned
on and off within a browser to permit advertisements on
certain websites while blocking others. Use your bookmarks her favorites
for navigating to log in websites, including that we'll give
you some other stories that are happening in the FBI,
Because I believe it or not, there's always a bust

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somewhere happening, and most people don't even know. An investigation
of the imron alray of New Hampshire. He was sentenced
for three years in federal prison for stealing seven million
dollars from the United Way. He was also ordered to
pay two point three million dollars in restitution. He was

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using this in the organization as his own ATM, stealing
millions of dollars in short changing their efforts and the
community in the process, and another investigation led to l
then last name is a surname is Tchu of Boston
agreed to pleate guilty and connection with thirty five million
dollars in health Crawd health care fraud scheme in which

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she allegedly defrauded Medicare for genetic testing services. She never provided.
Thirty five million dollars. That's a lot of money. We're
gonna add these things now to our FBI podcast giving
you the latest FBI criminal cases that they busted, and

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will also give you other cases that happened in the past,
and hopefully we'll get some FBI agents as well to
share their stories with us as well as looking at
the stories that we can provide you and provide the
latest criminal investigations. My last one today was Tyra Brown,
who was sentenced today. This is all just happening in Boston,
by the way, so his FBI offices all over the

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United States, so we could do this literally for hours.
Tyra Brown was sentenced to three years in federal prison
for stealing over three hundred thousand dollars with elderly customers
at a New Hampshire credit union. So good job for
the FBI out there. Thanks for your support and protection.