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BULLETIN: FTC Paints Picture Of Spectacular, International Fraud Involving At Least 16 ‘Sham’ Companies, More Than 100 Bogus Merchant Accounts And 14 ‘Money Mules’; More Than 1.3 Million People Fleeced
PP BLOG BULLETIN >>> MOVING >>> More than 1.3 million debit or credit-card numbers have been compromised in an international micro-payments scheme that resulted in fraudulent charges totaling more than $10 million. The money appears to have been whisked offshore to bank accounts in Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, and Kyrgyzstan, the FTC said. At…