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The FBI has reported that around 19,000 victims of tech-support scams sent in complaints from January to June of this year with estimated losses of over $542 million. See: 19 Dangerous Scam Phone ...
Aerial shot of the CJIS building in Clarksburg, West Virginia in 2009 FBI Criminal Justice Information Services Division. The CJIS Division is the largest division of the FBI Science and Technology Branch and is located in a half million square foot main facility on a 986-acre (4.0 km 2) tract in Clarksburg, West
The FBI also spied upon and collected information on Puerto Rican independence leader Pedro Albizu Campos and his Nationalist political party in the 1930s. Albizu Campos was convicted three times in connection with deadly attacks on US government officials: in 1937 (Conspiracy to overthrow the government of the United States), in 1950 (attempted murder), and in 1954 (after an armed assault on ...
The FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received more than 101,000 reports of scams and fraud against people ages 60 and older in 2023, causing seniors to lose over $3.4 billion. And those ...
The Criminal, Cyber, Response, and Services Branch ( CCRSB) is a service within the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The CCRSB is responsible for investigating financial crime, white-collar crime, violent crime, organized crime, public corruption, violations of individual civil rights, and drug-related crime.
Voice phishing, or vishing, [ 1] is the use of telephony (often Voice over IP telephony) to conduct phishing attacks. Landline telephone services have traditionally been trustworthy; terminated in physical locations known to the telephone company, and associated with a bill-payer. Now however, vishing fraudsters often use modern Voice over IP ...
The FBI is warning consumers to be on the alert for scammers who tie up their phone lines while emptying their bank accounts. These "telephone denial-of-service" attacks are similar to ones that ...
Christopher Asher Wray (born December 17, 1966 [2]) is an American attorney who is the current director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). He was nominated by president Donald Trump and has held the position since August 2, 2017. Born in New York City, Wray graduated from Yale University in 1989, then attended Yale Law School.