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Editorial Roundup: United States 07/17/2024 03:15pm • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: July 12 The Washington Post on young people in America and national service Polls suggest young Americans are less enchanted with their country than previous generations. Yet even those who want to serve their country, conducting some Montgomery Co. senior scammed out of $900K in gold bar 'big-money scheme' 07/16/2024 09:45pm • Scammers persuaded an 82-year-old Montgomery County, Maryland, woman to buy a fortune's worth of gold bars and then hand them over earlier this year, according to prosecutors, who said the scammers posed as federal agents working to protect her savings. Zhenyong Weng, 19, of New York City, has be U.S hits Mexican accountants and firms with sanctions for timeshare scams that support drug cartel 07/16/2024 12:55pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. on Tuesday imposed sanctions on a group of Mexican accountants and firms allegedly linked to a timeshare fraud ring run by the Jalisco New Generation drug cartel. Three accountants were hit with sanctions, along with four Mexican real estate and accounting firms. In add Treason and espionage cases are rising in Russia since the war in Ukraine began 07/14/2024 04:32pm • TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — When Maksim Kolker’s phone rang at 6 a.m., and the voice on the other end said his father had been arrested, he thought it was a scam to extort money. A day earlier, he had taken his father, prominent Russian physicist Dmitry Kolker, to the hospital in his native Novosibi One Tech Tip: Protecting yourself against SIM swapping 07/14/2024 12:07am • NEW YORK (AP) — SIM-swapping is a growing form of identity theft that goes beyond hacking into an email or social media account. In this case, the thieves take over your phone number. Any calls or texts go to them, not to you. Any protections consumers enabled to secure access to their financial What's worse than thieves hacking into your bank account? When they steal your phone number, too 07/14/2024 12:01am • WASHINGTON (AP) — One Monday morning in May, I woke up and grabbed my cell phone to read the news and scroll through memes. But it was out of cell service. I couldn't make calls or texts. That, though, turned out to be the least of my problems. Using my home Wi-Fi connection, I checked my email As a new scam targets owners of lost pets, a local shelter offers a heads up 07/12/2024 08:05pm • The Fairfax County Animal Shelter wants pet owners to know that someone is posing as shelter staff in an attempt to get money from owners of lost pets. Reasa Currier, director of Fairfax County's Department of Animal Sheltering, told WTOP how the scam works. When a pet owner posts about their Political ads on social media rife with misinformation and scams, new research finds 07/10/2024 09:28am • WASHINGTON (AP) — The online advertisement to Donald Trump supporters was clear enough: Click here, and receive a free Trump 2024 flag and a commemorative coin. All in exchange for taking a quick survey and providing a credit card number for the $5 shipping and handling. “You’ll get two free g Man's thumb cut off by suspects who used it to steal money off his phone, court docs say 07/09/2024 06:45pm • A man was stabbed and killed inside his apartment in April and the suspects cut off his thumb in order to steal money off his cellphone, according to D.C. court documents. Two women have been arrested and charged this month in the killing of Fasil Teklemariam, 53, who was found dead inside his ap 'Customers should be aware': Pepco customers are being urged to watch out for scammers 07/09/2024 04:13am • Pepco is reminding customers to watch out for potential scams, which could even involve a phone call from a customer service number. "There's a lot of common schemes that involve scammers' use of technology to replicate a company's phone number through caller ID," said Pepco spokesman Frank Tedes Scammers are swiping billions from Americans every year. Worse, most crooks are getting away with it 07/07/2024 01:53pm • The scammers are winning. Sophisticated overseas criminals are stealing tens of billions of dollars from Americans every year, a crime wave projected to get worse as the U.S. population ages and technology like AI makes it easier than ever to perpetrate fraud and get away with it. Internet and Review: June Squibb is delightful as a grandma on a mission in ‘Thelma’ 06/28/2024 04:56am • There are a lot of bad comedies about, and supposedly for, senior citizens. It’s especially depressing because the worst offenders, the ones that don’t just feel cheap and lazy but exploitative too, often feature our finest actors. They can take on the air of an unintentional horror film – and How To Deposit Cash Into Someone Else's Account 06/26/2024 08:00pm • If you have cash, a check or money in the bank that needs to be sent to someone else, there are many transfer options available. You can deposit cash into someone else's account electronically, with different types of checks, money orders and wire transfers. Your bank may also offer a specific metho 10 Things to Do if Your Identity Is Stolen 06/17/2024 08:00pm • U.S. adults lost more than $23 billion to traditional identity fraud in 2023 and spent an average of 10 hours trying to resolve the problem, according to the 2024 Identity Fraud Study from Javelin Strategy & Research. Those losses represent a 13% increase from the previous year and don't include The anti-abortion movement is making a big play to thwart citizen initiatives on reproductive rights 06/16/2024 02:30pm • CHICAGO (AP) — Reeling from a string of defeats, anti-abortion groups and their Republican allies in state governments are using an array of strategies to counter proposed ballot initiatives intended to protect reproductive rights or prevent voters from having a say in the fall elections. The tact