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CFPB Levels Up: Consumer Risks in Gaming Draws Regulatory Scrutiny

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If you thought virtual reality was free from real-world regulations, think again. On April 4, 2024, the CFPB released an Issue Spotlight that dives deeply into a realm the agency had not previously traversed—video games and...more

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FTC Proposes Rule to Make Impersonating Government Entities and Businesses Unlawful

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On February 15, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) finalized its Government and Business Impersonation Rule (the Impersonation Rule, available here) prohibiting fraudulent impersonation of governments, businesses and...more

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Tips to Avoid the Common Fraudster: Lessons from Corporate Investigations

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With scams evolving and growing in volume and maturity, it is more important than ever before to be vigilant about what information is available to nefarious actors. This article provides common scam scenarios, tips for...more

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

State AGs and the INFORM Consumers Act: Key Takeaways

With a new law on the books aiming to protect consumers from fraudulent online sales, it’s a good time for online marketplaces, third-party sellers and retailers to reexamine their compliance programs and relationships with...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Florida Web Designer Settles with DOJ on 2020 HealthyKids.org Medicaid Breach

A Florida communications firm and its owner agreed to pay $293,771 to resolve False Claims Act (FCA) allegations that they failed to secure personal information on a federally funded Florida children’s health insurance...more

Cozen O'Connor

New Congress, New Investigations

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Early Saturday morning, after 15 rounds of voting, Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif. 20th District) finally clinched the speaker’s gavel and swore in members of the 118th Congress. The Republican-led Congress ushers in a new period of...more

Burr & Forman

Fraudulent Transfers of Property Listed for Sale on the Internet

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Scammers are taking advantage of the active real estate market. Recently, I was contacted by a client who received a call from a lawyer in another state to verify a signature on a deed for the client’s lot being sold;...more

Pillsbury - Internet & Social Media Law Blog

News of Note for the Internet-Minded – AR Defense Systems, VR Adventures and Defrauding Bots

This week’s News of Notes includes a controversial use of facial recognition technology, stories highlighting AI’s role in both energy production and consumption, the continued use of ransomware and bots for criminal...more

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Show Me the Money: Attorneys General Urge CFPB on Complaints About Money-Sharing Platforms, Apps

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On December 20, 2021, a bipartisan group of 33 AGs, led by Idaho AG Lawrence Wasden and Oregon AG Ellen Rosenblum, sent a letter to the Director of the CFPB in response to the CFPB’s Request for Comments on its inquiry into...more

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Budget Requests As DOJ Enforcement Signposts — What We Can Learn About The DOJ’s Priorities From Its 2022 Budget Request

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On May 28, 2021, President Biden submitted his Budget for Fiscal Year 2022 to Congress, including $35.3 billion for the Department of Justice (“DOJ”), which was an overall increase of almost $4 billion from the previous...more

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Identifying and preventing synthetic identity fraud

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While preventing fraud has always been a key challenge for businesses in any industry, the task has been made even more difficult by the prevalence of online sales and the increasing sophistication of fraudsters. As states...more

Hogan Lovells

Cheaper in-app purchases… tempting but what is at stake?

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Mobile applications are becoming indispensable in our daily lives and businesses. There are many ways to monetize a game app – through showing ads, offering free trials, income from in-app purchases etc. Unfortunately, there...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Privacy Tip #228 – Coronavirus Scare Is the Perfect Cover for Fraudsters

The coronavirus—or COVID-19—has health care experts scrambling, and has caused global concern for health and well-being due to its rapid spread throughout many countries, including the United States....more

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Ex-Microsoft software engineer convicted of embezzling $10 million in digital value

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A Ukrainian man living in the U.S. is facing up to 20 years in prison after being convicted of 18 federal felonies to defraud his former employer Microsoft out of more than $10 million in digital value. ...more

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Take That Down: Recent Lawsuit on Negative Reviews

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“Beer: The cause and solution to all of life’s problems.” Mr. Homer J. Simpson would love the recent case of a Massachusetts craft beer company that has been trying in federal court to get the employment website Glassdoor...more

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WIPO - France: Domain name used for cyber fraud

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In a recent decision under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) before the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), a Panel ordered the transfer of a domain name because, although it had never been...more

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