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Anonymous ID: b12200 April 22, 2020, 9:02 a.m. No.8884543   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4595 >>4690 >>4877 >>4995

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Department of Justice Announces Disruption of Hundreds of Online COVID-19 Related Scams

Hundreds of Domains Disrupted Through Public and Private Sector Cooperative Efforts

 

Federal authorities announced today that an ongoing cooperative effort between law enforcement and a number of private-sector companies, including multiple internet domain providers and registrars, has disrupted hundreds of internet domains used to exploit the COVID-19 pandemic to commit fraud and other crimes.

 

As of April 21, 2020, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has received and reviewed more than 3,600 complaints related to COVID-19 scams, many of which operated from websites that advertised fake vaccines and cures, operated fraudulent charity drives, delivered malware, or hosted various other types of scams. To attract traffic, these websites often utilized domain names that contained words such as “covid19,” or “coronavirus.” In some cases, the fraudulent sites purported to be run by, or affiliated with, public health organizations or agencies.

 

For example, the cooperative effort has disrupted:

 

An illicit website pretending to solicit and collect donations to the American Red Cross for COVID-19 relief efforts.

 

Fraudulent websites that spoofed government programs and organizations to trick American citizens into entering personally identifiable information, including banking details.

 

Websites of legitimate companies and services that were used to facilitate the distribution or control of malicious software.

etc.

 

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-announces-disruption-hundreds-online-covid-19-related-scams

Anonymous ID: b12200 April 22, 2020, 9:15 a.m. No.8884691   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4887

When

@SenatorBurr

@MarkWarner

@SenFeinstein

look in the mirror, how do they assess their own work in the use of: "information warfare to sow societal chaos and discord"?

 

Have their former "Security Director"/@maddow/@AliWatkins helped with this hit job?

 

https://twitter.com/carterwpage/status/1252992555563790338

 

responding to:

 

One of the ICA’s most important conclusions was that Russia’s aggressive interference efforts should be considered ‘the new normal.’

 

That warning has been borne out, as Russia and its imitators increasingly use information warfare to sow societal chaos and discord.

https://twitter.com/SenatorBurr/status/1252634806866894849

 

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