FRAUD AWARENESS WEEK

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  1. 3. Part of the money laundering cycle, the injection of “dirty money” into the legitimate financial system.
  2. 4. Money _____ is an illegal activity that makes large amounts of money generated by criminal activity, such as drug trafficking or terrorist funding, appear to have come from a legitimate source.
  3. 7. Suspicious _____ Report
  4. 9. This type of financial crime Identity fraud refers to the act of obtaining financial gain through profit driven criminal activity, such as Ransomware attacks, Business Email Compromise, and Pig Butchering.
  5. 10. The FBIs Internet Crime _____ Center is a division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation concerning suspected Internet-facilitated criminal activity.
  6. 12. A type of scam where a criminal uses a fake online identity to gain a victim's affection and trust. The scammer then uses the illusion of a romantic or close relationship to manipulate and/or steal from the victim.
  7. 13. A technique used by scammers to disguise an email address, sender name, phone number, or website URL—often just by changing one letter, symbol, or number—to convince you that you are interacting with a trusted source
  8. 15. Phishing scams that happen over the phone
  9. 16. A scheme where one might be lured to a spoofed website that might look nearly identical to the real thing and asked to enter sensitive information like passwords, credit card numbers, banking PINs, etc., where your information would be stolen.
  10. 17. Any activity that relies on deception in order to achieve a gain.
  11. 19. ____ theft: the crime of using the personal or financial information of another person to commit fraud, such as making unauthorized transactions or purchases.
  12. 20. A type of fraud that occurs when devices illegally installed on or inside ATMs, point-of-sale (POS) terminals, or fuel pumps capture card data and record cardholders’ PIN entries.
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  1. 1. Business Email _____: a type of fraud where criminals send an email message that appears to come from a known source making a legitimate request, where funds are redirected to the criminals instead.
  2. 2. Part of the money laundering cycle, the laundered money is disbursed from the legitimate account.
  3. 5. Part of the money laundering cycle, the concealing the source of the money through a series of transactions and bookkeeping tricks.
  4. 6. The USA Patriot Act stands for Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct ______
  5. 8. Someone who transfers or moves illegally acquired money on behalf of someone else, also known as a cash smuggler
  6. 11. Currency _____ Report
  7. 14. A type of company that exists on paper only, an inactive company used to facilitate money laundering schemes.
  8. 18. A type of fraud where scammers, through various means of manipulation, convince victims to deposit more and more money into financial “investments” using cryptocurrency where the funds are ultimately stolen by criminal actors, usually overseas.