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Magic Mouse SMS Master Steals 650,000 Credit Cards Monthly đź’°
Frank McKenna
August 11, 2025
Hello Fraud Fighters đź‘‹
I’m back! You may have noticed that there was no newsletter in your inbox last week. That’s because I was on vacation in Hawaii with the family. 🏄‍♂️ It was a blast. The only bad part of Hawaii, is when you have to leave. It’s like leaving heaven.
Let’s get to the top stories of the week.
Fraud News RoundUp 🗞️
No Way… - Another Forbes 30 under 30 is being accused of a big fraud for wildly inflating her numbers. Read More
$19 Million City National Bank BEC Scam - A company lost over $19 million in an ultra-sophisticated BEC attack. Read More
Boom! - Commonwealth Bank is at it again with AI, introducing a new scam detector that will alert them anytime their info is being used at 60% of vendors in Australia. Read More.
Goodnight Cinderella Scam - This is a horrible new deadly scam that is making its way through Brazil and hurting unsuspecting tourist. Read More
The Fraudster behind California Exit - Xavier Mitchell lives in a run-down luxury castle and is the CEO of a high profile org trying to make California its own country. Read More
Is this the answer to scams? - A new research study says that playing serious games may be the best way to prevent people from getting romance scammed. Read More
4,486 Patients - A fake nurse using fraudulent identification documents was arrested in what police call the most disturbing case of medical fraud they have ever witnessed. She put thousands of lives at risk. No one realized she was fake, she was even offered a promotion! Read More
Stunning $115 Million Loan Fraud - A massive SBA loan fraud scheme involving 7 banks helped enable a mind blowing ponzi scheme. Jason Mikula ask, “Why aren’t people talking about this?” Read More
AI-Crafted Website Scam - AI software is being used to clone government agency websites in Brazil to steal millions from unsuspecting citizens who think they are paying parking tickets or educational fees. Read More
SSA’s Fraud Logjam - Experts say the Social Security Adminstrations new fraud controls are going to result in 5.3 million more people making trips to field offices which they say is exacerbated by the layoff of 7,000 SSA employees. Its a logjam! Read More
Aged YouTube Accounts Were used along with AI-generated avatar videos to fool victims into deploying bots that drained their crypto accounts. One Youtube account @Jazz.Braze was able to siphon off close to $1 million after generating over 387,000 views. Read More
LoveCon Revenge - Remember Cecilie Fjellhøy, the Tinder Swindler victim? She has gone on the offensive and teamed up with Netflix to take down romance scammers in realtime. Read More
People Are Selling Their Identities - CIFAS reports that fraud has hit its highest level ever and people are selling their own identities to fraudsters. Read More
Crime Rings Fake Research Epidemic - Organized fraud networks are publishing thousands of fraudulent research studies, selling fake authorship to wannabes and poisoning scientific databases. Read More
Can anyone figure this out? - Researchers have come up with the wackiest new modeling technique to stop credit card fraud that I have ever seen. Its called the "Hybrid Big Bang-Big crunch with cuckoo search” But I can’t make heads or tails out of it? Take a shot
Door To Door Free Phone Scam - In California, people are going door to door handing out “free phones” to shocked residents but it turns out it is all part of a sophisticated scam. Read More
South Beach Bust Out Fraudster Filed Fake Police Reports And Affidavit To Experian
Ledys Legra GarcĂa bought a $154,000 Mercedes-Benz GT55 and a $58,782 Land Rover Defender by lying about her income and employment status.
She might have gotten away with it but she tried to wash her credit by creating a fake police report saying her identity was stolen, filing a claim with the FTC and then sending a notorized affidavit to Experian to have the tradelines removed.
The problem? She had already reported the car stolen from her residence 3 months earlier.
He Just Can’t Be Stopped: The SMS Scammer Stealing 650,000 Credit Cards A Month
He’s a 25 year old Chinese national named Yucheng C, and he is the mastermind behind many of those SMS messages for unpaid tolls or undeliverable mail that you might receive on your phone.
After researchers identified him last year, his operations vanished overnight. Now he is back with a new name - “Magic Mouse” and he is bigger and stronger than ever.
“She Knew Exactly Who To Target” Centra Credit Union Branch Manager Stole Customers Money
Teresa Palmer was a branch manager for Centra Credit Union when she started taking out cash and forging checks on customers accounts.
She was very specific about who she would target - older people that she knew would not be checking their accounts regularly. She would sack their cash and forge checks which she used for “gambling and personal expenses”
A Tampa woman was arrested for running one of those “Tap-In” scams on Facebook. They found over 100 debit cards, computers and drugs when they arrested her.
She recruited people to give her their debit cards, and she would deposit fraudulent checks and give them a cut.
Check out this great video here that breaks it all down in detail 👉️ Tap In Scam
This scheme is all over Facebook, but they don’t seem to care.
Judge Slams The Door On Founder That Defrauded Chase Of $175 Million
Charlie Javice and her co-founder were found guilty of defrauding Chase for $175 million earlier this year but they tried to get the verdict thrown out and a new trial for a host of issues they said made the trial unfair.
The judge blocked it, so it looks like she may be headed to jail at some point.
AI Photo Fraud: Airbnb Host Used AI To Fake A Cracked Coffee Table To Bill Guest for $12K
Unbelievable. A New York Airbnb host resorted to AI to fake damage to a coffee table to bill a guest over $5,000 to replace it.
The guest noticed that the “cracked coffee table” damage was slightly different from image to image he submitted.
After putting up a fight, AirBNB sided with the guest and removed the charges from her bill.
Commonwealth Banks Scam Busting AI Bots Full Webinar Is Live
Did you miss the Fraudology Live Webinar where we cover Apate.AI’s extraordinary AI bots that are taking on scammers where they are?
If so don’t worry, we got your back and you can now watch the full Webinar or listen to it on the Fraudology Podcast.
This Is A Doozy - Billionaire Scammed Out Of $400 Million
Mexican Billionaire Ricardo Plaigo thought he had found the perfect lender when he found a man claiming to be the descendant of the Astor Family.
Instead of getting a loan, a Ukrainian scammer was able to steal $400 million from him, wiping out a third of his net worth and crashing his company’s stock by 71%.
Miami Heat Inside Job Was Pulled Off By Ex Cop
A retired police officer who got a job with the Miami Heat on their security team secretly stole hundreds of game-worn jerseys from the team, including one worth millions of dollars.
The retired Miami cop sold a LeBron James Finals jersey for $100,000. That same jersey later sold for $3.7 million at Sotheby's auction.
FBI agents found 300 jerseys stashed at his home. Prosecutors now say he sold $2 million worth of stolen Heat history.
A Gang Of Monkeys Is Running A Criminal Scam Enterprise
This is wild! A gang of monkeys at a temple in Bali have perfected a scam operation that they carry out daily
They steal phones, wallets, sunglasses and other valuables from tourists in broad daylight, then trade them back for mangos and other food.
Researchers studied the monkeys and found that they can tell which items will fetch the biggest rewards so the monkeys target iPhones stealing about 10 a day from tourist.
Is It AI?
That’s a wrap for this week. If you have any tips, just let me know.
Have a great week, fraud fighters!