Amazon Scams Target Personal Information and more!

There are some big scams using Amazon to lure customers into providing personal information and more! The first is an email that looks like it is coming from Amazon using a phishing technique. The email states that your order can't be shipped or it's cancelled and you need to enter your personal information to resolve it. It even takes you to the true Amazon website but what it's really doing is gathering your personal information and exploiting it so please be careful! Another issues are companies selling on Amazon with prices so low they are truly fake. These sellers never actually ship the item and you never see it. If you don't complain quickly enough they can take off with your funds. An easy way to figure it out is if the business just opened and is offering the item way below anyone else. I hope you find this information useful and be careful in general whenever you provide personal information. always make sure you are no getting scammed as there are many way scammers will phish for information.

Surprise! Agriporcessor Executive Pleads Guilty to Fraud

Agriprocessor is a company that has had more bad press than any I can think of in a long time. This company has been brought up on charges from every angle! It started with allegations of animal cruelty then certification issues and labor violations then eventually bankruptcy. One would think with Agriprocessors recent sale this would be the end of the saga but there's more! A former executive of Agriprocessor:Yomtov “Toby” Bensasson, 56, has plead guilty to fraud. He admitted that he conspired from September 2007 to October 2008 to lie to a bank to receive advances on a loan. Bensasson told authorities that he “overstated the value of collateral as part of his employer’s request for an advance on a loan,” the U.S. attorney’s office said in a statement.
With all the recent bad press Jews have been getting in the business world this only adds fuel to the fire.

Obama IS a US Citizen: Supreme Court

The supreme court has declined to hear an emergency appeal on the idea that President-elect Barack Obama is not a natural born citizen. There has been a lot of buzz both in blogs and print regarding the suit filed by Philip J. Berg. There are 2 more lawsuits pending neither of which have been scheduled.

Spinka Rebbe Indicted for Tax Fraud!

As if we don't have enough stereotypes the Grand Spinka Rabbi: Naftali Tzvi Weisz, 59, faced some serious today in LA federal court. Among them are, conspiracy, mail fraud and money laundering, according to a 37-count indictment returned Tuesday.

Authorities say Weisz helped solicit millions of dollars in contributions to five Spinka charitable groups by promising to secretly refund up to 95 percent of the donations. That way, the contributors could falsely claim higher tax deductions,

In some cases, donors received cash payments through an underground money transfer network involving business owners in Los Angeles' jewelry district, prosecutors said. Contributors also were reimbursed through wire transfers from Spinka-controlled entities into accounts secretly held at a bank in Israel, prosecutors said.

Weisz is from Brooklyn, N.Y., where the charitable organizations are based.

Also indicted were his executive assistant, Moshe E. Zigelman, 60. Six of the seven charged in the case were taken into custody as federal agents conducted searches in Los Angeles and New York on Wednesday morning.

It was unclear whether the defendants had retained attorneys yet.

I hope this is all some kind of mistake but with an indictment that long what are the chances? This should strike some fear into any other organizations trying the same shtick.

Attorney Gen. Nails 2 Orthodox Jews for Medicaid Fraud!

The NYT has the story on a huge chillul hashem to hit the stands. Two orthodox Jews plead guilty to stealing more than $12 million dollars from medicaid. They owned a Brooklyn firm whose job was to place home health care aides.

The two men, Nachem Singer, 43, and Ervin Rubenstein, 43, both of Brooklyn, ran their agency, Immediate Home Care, from 1994 to 2006, according to Mr. Cuomo’s office. The company employed at least 2,000 home health aides, including a dozen who were convicted last week of working with phony certifications.According to the attorney general, the men hired home aides with inadequate training or fraudulent certification and provided them to agencies that in some cases billed Medicaid for work that was never done.Home health aides — who provide a variety of services, from administering medication to catheter care — are required to receive at least 75 hours of training, including 16 hours of practical training with a registered nurse, and to complete a written test in English.But Immediate Home Care recruited aides from a number of state-certified schools from which home health aide certificates could be purchased with little or no training, the attorney general said. Those included two New York City-based schools — Smalls Training and Counseling School and On Time Home Care Agency — whose owners pleaded guilty earlier this year to supplying hundreds of home health care aides with false certificates.