Romance scams aren't the only goals of a catfish. The catfish needs some way to get all that money delivered into their hands without leaving a trail. To accomplish this, they recruit unwitting victims into laundering their money. Meet Alice, who unknowingly becomes a money mule for Parker the Catfish.
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When Daniel Rigmaiden was caught committing tax fraud, little did we know that he would expose an infringement on Fourth Amendment rights and even cause the surveillance laws to change.
In 2017, consumer reporting agency Equifax was breached, and the credit records of more than 140 million consumers—more than half the adults in the United States at the time—were extracted
Hacks and scams are closely related, but aren't exactly the same.
