Prosecutor: Garfield Grandpa Busted At Local Park Trying To Meet Pre-Teen For Sex Prosecutor: Garfield Grandpa Busted At Local Park Trying To Meet Pre-Teen For Sex
Prosecutor: Garfield Grandpa Busted At Local Park Trying To Meet Pre-Teen For Sex A 72-year-old married retiree from Garfield was arrested at a local park when he tried to meet a pre-teen there following phone sex and texts, authorities said Wednesday. Detectives from the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office and Garfield police seized Angel Bernard at Dophine Park on Monday. A judge in Hackensack released him with conditions less than 24 hours later, records show. Investigators from the BCPO Special Victims and Cyber Crimes units were alerted by Garfield police, who’d discovered that Bernard was “communicating via smartphone text messaging and phone conversations” with a m…
Indictment: Union City Man Pressured Child Into Sending Sex Pics, Then Shared Them On Facebook Indictment: Union City Man Pressured Child Into Sending Sex Pics, Then Shared Them On Facebook
Indictment: Union City Man Pressured Child Into Sending Sex Pics, Then Shared Them On Facebook A Union City man who authorities said pressured a child into sending him sexually explicit images that he then shared on Facebook was indicted by a federal grand jury in Newark. Ramon Zelaya, 36, also “used Facebook to conspire with an individual in the Dominican Republic to sexually abuse the individual’s minor child, create images of that abuse and send the images to Zelaya, who then distributed the images among various Facebook accounts he controlled,” U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. Zelaya, “representing himself as a teenaged boy, used Instagram communications to persuade a child to…
Police Issue Alert To Area Residents For Screen-Sharing Scam Police Issue Alert To Area Residents For Screen-Sharing Scam
Police Issue Alert To Area Residents For Screen-Sharing Scam Police are warning of a new scam involving instances of fraud stemming from screen-sharing software that gives scammers access to personal computers and smartphones. The scams that involve remote access software being used to target devices, one of which was recently used on an area resident. Police said that a fraudster posing as a customer care executive from Amazon advised the victim that a “fraud alert” has been placed on their account. The victim acknowledged that they had an Amazon account but did not have the Amazon app on their phone. The fraudster took this opportunity to direct…
Bitcoin Scammers Claim To Have Compromising Videos Of Victims Bitcoin Scammers Claim To Have Compromising Videos Of Victims
Bitcoin Scammers Claim To Have Compromising Videos Of Victims Bitcoin scammers have been threatening to expose sensitive videos of their victims if they are not paid off. Fraudsters have been sending spam emails that allege they have recorded video of “you getting yourself off,” which they threaten to expose if they are not paid off. The emails claim that the scammer is from out of the country, and cannot be targeted by local law enforcement. Related story - COVID-19: Cybercriminals Using New Sextortion Tactics Amid Pandemic Scammers allege that based on their potential victims’ visiting “bad” websites that infected computers with malware, they now …
FBI: Drone Leads Divers To Devices Jersey Shore Child Porn Collector, 52, Tossed Into Water FBI: Drone Leads Divers To Devices Jersey Shore Child Porn Collector, 52, Tossed Into Water
FBI: Drone Leads Divers To Devices Jersey Shore Child Porn Collector, 52, Tossed Into Water A law enforcement drone helped the FBI find an iPad and iPhone containing child pornography that a collector under investigation tossed into a Jersey Shore creek, authorities said. Federal authorities on Thursday charged Charles F. Browne, 52, currently of South River, with uploading images of child sexual abuse to a Dropbox account and “concealing objects to impede the FBI’s investigation,” U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. Officials at Dropbox Inc. alerted them to the images, uploaded to an account with the screen name “Charles Browne” and an email address containing the term “cbrowne,”…
COVID-19: FBI Issues Alert For Fake Hiring Scams Targeting Individuals, Businesses COVID-19: FBI Issues Alert For Fake Hiring Scams Targeting Individuals, Businesses
Covid-19: FBI Issues Alert For Fake Hiring Scams Targeting Individuals, Businesses With millions of Americans looking for work or working from home due to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis, the FBI has seen an uptick in fake job and hiring scams from opportunistic cybercriminals. Fraudsters have been leveraging their purported positions as faux “employers” to persuade victims into believing they had a new job in an effort to steal their personal information or to get them to send money. According to the FBI, “fake job scams have existed for a long time but technology has made this scam easier and more lucrative. Cybercriminals now pose as legitimate employers by spo…
Feds Smash Hundreds Of Online Coronavirus Scams -- And Tell You What To Look For Feds Smash Hundreds Of Online Coronavirus Scams -- And Tell You What To Look For
Feds Smash Hundreds Of Online Coronavirus Scams -- And Tell You What To Look For Federal authorities said they've gotten help from domain providers and others in smashing hundreds of online sites exploiting the COVID-19 pandemic to commit fraud and other crimes. As of Tuesday, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) had received and reviewed more than 3,600 complaints related to COVID-19 scams, the Justice Department said Wednesday. Many of them “operated from websites that advertised fake vaccines and cures, operated fraudulent charity drives, delivered malware, or hosted various other types of scams,” federal officials said in a release. To attract traffic, t…
COVID-19: Anti-Semitic 'Zoom Bombing' Incident Under Investigation In Westchester COVID-19: Anti-Semitic 'Zoom Bombing' Incident Under Investigation In Westchester
Covid-19: Anti-Semitic 'Zoom Bombing' Incident Under Investigation In Westchester The Westchester County District Attorney’s Office is investigating recent anti-Semitic incidents during online religious services amid the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis. An investigation has been launched into recent “zoom-bombing” incidents that were being streamed “in an effort to bring people together while following social distancing directives,” Westchester County District Attorney Anthony Scarpino, Jr., announced. Zoom provides videotelephony and online chat services through a cloud-based platform. It's used for teleconferencing, telecommuting, distance education, and social rel…
BEWARE: Coronavirus Scammers Calling, Texting, Emailing, Visiting Victims BEWARE: Coronavirus Scammers Calling, Texting, Emailing, Visiting Victims
Beware: Coronavirus Scammers Calling, Texting, Emailing, Visiting Victims As if there wasn’t enough to worry about: Authorities are warning New Jereyans to beware of coronavirus scams. Stay alert and be wary of any call, text, email or stranger at your door, state Attorney Gurbir S. Grewal and officials with the state Division of Consumer Affairs said. Among their warnings: Representatives from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention aren’t going door-to-door for any reason, so be sure not to let anyone in who claims to be from the CDC and make sure you call police immediately; There are countless in-store or online advertisements for products that claim…
Putnam K9 Officer Hannah Featured In New Yorker Magazine For Sniffing Out Child Porn Putnam K9 Officer Hannah Featured In New Yorker Magazine For Sniffing Out Child Porn
Putnam K9 Officer Hannah Featured In New Yorker Magazine For Sniffing Out Child Porn Putnam County Sheriff Department’s K9 Officer Hannah, one of just 14 dogs trained by state police to sniff out child pornography, has been featured in an article in the New Yorker. Hannah, a yellow lab, has been trained to detect a heat-reducing chemical called triphenylphosphine oxide, present in all electronic storage devices. After graduating from her 10-week training course in March, Hannah can technically work on any type of cybercrime; however, her abilities are most often used to combat sex offenders. Hannah and her handler, John Hyla, of the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office, successfu…
Extortion Scam Involved Threat To Release Nude Photos Of Monroe Man, Police Say Extortion Scam Involved Threat To Release Nude Photos Of Monroe Man, Police Say
Extortion Scam Involved Threat To Release Nude Photos Of Monroe Man, Police Say An area man who was corresponding with an "alleged" woman online, found out the hard way not to send anyone nude photos when the woman attempted to scam him out of $2,000. Monroe Police are investigating the scam which was reported on Sunday, Oct. 27, after the man received the demand for money, said Lt. Stephen Corrone. Corrone said the man had been talking with the woman online for quite some time and had at one time sent her two $100 gift cards.  After the woman received the gift cards, the two exchanged nude photos, Corrone said. The man then received a screenshot on Facebook of …
Feds Smash World's Largest Dark Web Child Porn Network By Following Bitcoin Trail Feds Smash World's Largest Dark Web Child Porn Network By Following Bitcoin Trail
Feds Smash World's Largest Dark Web Child Porn Network By Following Bitcoin Trail Federal authorities have smashed the world’s largest dark web child porn marketplace, arresting a whopping 337 people around the world – some of them in New Jersey, New York and Connecticut -- all thanks to bitcoin. To sniff out the network, investigators used a unique strategy. "Welcome to Video" was one of the first websites of its kind to monetize exploitation videos of infants, toddlers and other children, "one of the worst forms of evil imaginable," one federal prosecutor said. The network used bitcoin because of the difficulty in tracing it, the Justice Department said in a complaint…