[UT] As a result of an investigation by the FBI San Diego Field Office, federal authorities have seized and shut down a web domain used to defraud Americans through cryptocurrency investment-fraud scams, officials announced Tuesday. Fidelity?
More than 400 San Diegans were among the victims of the Southeast Asia-based criminal enterprise, suffering an estimated cumulative loss of roughly $90 million in fiscal 2024, according to the FBI.
However, federal investigators said they believe that figure to be a fraction of the total scope of losses, given that many victims do not report their losses to law enforcement.
The shuttered web domain, tickmilleas.com, had been used by scammers based at a compound called Tai Chang in the village of Kyaukhat, Myanmar, the FBI reported.
The seizure of the online site occurred less than three weeks after the announcement of the formation of the Scam Center Strike Force, based in Washington, D.C., and the seizure of two other domains also used by the same alleged criminals, federal officials said.
According to an affidavit filed in the case, Tai Chang is affiliated with the Burmese armed group Democratic Karen Benevolent Army and Trans Asia International Holding Group Thailand Company Limited.
Both entities were designated by the U.S. Department of the Treasury as "specially designated nationals" on Nov. 12 for their alleged links to Chinese organized crime and the development of scam centers in Southeast Asia.
According to federal authorities, the tickmilleas.com domain was disguised as a legitimate investment platform to trick people into depositing funds.
Victims of the scams — a type that fraudsters refer to as "pig butchering" — reported to the FBI that tickmilleas.com showed lucrative supposed returns on what they believed to be their investments and displayed purported deposits made by scammers to the victims’ "accounts."
According to the affidavit, tickmilleas.com directed users to download mobile applications from Google Play and Apple’s App Store. The FBI notified those companies of the fraudulent apps, and they have voluntarily removed several of them from their stores.
The Scam Center Strike Force also worked with Meta to identify accounts associated with the Tai Chang compound, the FBI reported. Meta voluntarily removed about 2,000 of them, officials said.
Among the results of the investigation was the FBI’s discovery that Tai Chang was targeting a San Diegan, whom authorities were able to warn about the scheme before the targeted person lost any money, according to federal authorities.
[NBC] The FBI has arrested a suspect in its investigation into pipe bombs planted near the Republican and Democratic national party headquarters in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 5, 2021, according to a federal law enforcement official familiar with the investigation.
Brian Cole was identified as the suspect in custody, according to two senior law enforcement officials briefed on the matter. The arrest marks a breakthrough in a case that has stymied investigators for nearly five years.
An FBI official says the arrest happened Thursday morning. A news conference will take place at the Justice Department on Thursday to officially announce the arrest.
[IsraelTimes] Auschwitz’s ‘Angel of Death’ felt so comfortable in South American country that he began to use his real name in 1956, and requested his formal identification papers be reissued.
#1
There's no statute of limitations on genocide.
Mengele only lived because Mossad couldn't find him.
To contrast, just about everyone who planned and executed Oct 7 is dead.
And a bunch more who voted for them. #FAFO
#3
Besoeker, in the early 1970s I had a criminal explain it to me.. an assault is rarely more than 3 years in jail but a death leaves you open to life or death or worse. So in times of need assault was always a good option.
[GeekWire] Nuclear power company TerraPower has passed the Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff's final safety evaluation for a permit to build a reactor in Wyoming. The Washington-based company backed by Bill Gates and NVIDIA could be the first to deploy a utility-scale, next-generation reactor in America.
TerraPower's Natrium design pairs a small modular reactor (SMR) with an integrated thermal battery. The SMR generates 345 megawatts of continuous electrical power. The thermal battery, which stores excess heat in molten salt, allows the system to surge its output to 500 megawatts for more than five hours, generating enough energy to power 400,000 homes at maximum capacity.
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Can't start construction yet. Several more approvals still needed but the staff safety review was an important one.
Bill Gates and the Gates Foundation are raising the alarm over the deadly impacts of international funding cuts in global health. Slashed budgets are projected to reverse decades of progress, causing the number of children dying before their fifth birthday to rise for the first time this century. An estimated 4.8 million children are expected to die this year, an increase of 200,000 deaths compared to last year.
Is he still giving to Planned Parenthood?
#3
I know that some of you are big proponents of nuclear power but if Bill Gates is in on it, I worry that it will be as buggy as Windows and that would not be good for Wyoming.
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^3
partly agree
this reactor, given its novelty will require a extensive run at low power then stepping up a few times until it reaches full power
almost certainly there will be problems to correct but the company knows this and will have a lot of devices, cameras and people watching the start up phases
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^#1. What would the murder rate be if abortions were counted as murders? Remember the unborn, they are persons.
[NBC...sorry about that] Republican Matt Van Epps has won a hotly contested special election for a deep-red congressional seat in Tennessee, NBC News projects, seeing off a Democratic challenge for the longtime GOP district.
Though President Donald Trump carried the 7th Congressional District by 22 points in 2024, Republican super PACs poured millions into defending the seat as Van Epps faced off against Aftyn Behn,
… D-crazy eyes, who stated during the campaign that she hates Nashville and country music, so hopefully she got a fat campaign chest out of the exercise…
a Democratic state representative. Democrats spent almost as much trying to capture it, as Trump’s political standing has taken a hit this year and the Democratic Party made gains in November elections in New Jersey, Virginia and other states. The farther you get from Nashville, the more rational the people; 85% GOP in Wayne County; 77% Donk in Davidson
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She was one of the worst candidates possible. I thought she was a lock.
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D-crazy eyes anti Nashville won by about 50 points in the Nashville part of the district.
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Part of the problem was the GOP (AKA Trump) touting a candidate who wasn't very well known in most of the district, rather than pushing for a known quantity.
[ZH] Meta shares jumped the most in months after a Bloomberg report said Mark Zuckerberg is preparing deep cuts to the company's metaverse ambitions. The metaverse, once pitched by Zuckerberg as the "next chapter of the internet," has been nothing more than a colossal failure.
According to Bloomberg, Meta executives have discussed slashing the metaverse budget by up to 30% for 2026, which includes the virtual-worlds product Meta Horizon Worlds and its Quest virtual-reality unit. These upcoming cuts to Reality Labs' VR operations will likely result in layoffs as early as January.
Zuckerberg has reportedly asked all divisions to find 10% savings, but the metaverse unit was asked for much deeper cuts because it has been a total flop since its introduction early in the pandemic.
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[Regnum] In Bali, a cat named Masya prevented a venomous snake from entering a house occupied by a Russian family with children. The cat took the attack and fought the viper, the cat's owner, Anna, reported on December 3
According to the woman, Masya was let out for a walk, and it was at that moment that the snake appeared on the porch.
"Masya was most likely preventing the snake from getting into the house. We were inside when it screamed. Then it was immediately taken to the vet. At first, we didn't even know it was a snake and didn't understand what was happening. Then we came back, and the puzzle came together," Anna told the 360 TV channel.
The cat was injured and seriously poisoned, but veterinarians managed to stabilize its condition. Antidote was available only at one of the island's veterinary clinics, and specialists noted that the pet's survival was a miracle. The cat spent three days in intensive care and is now recovering.
[IsraelTimes] UN rights experts are urging Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... to halt the execution of a woman over the death of her abusive husband, whom she was married off to at 12 years old.
Goli Kouhkan, an undocumented Baluch woman today aged 25, is set to be executed this month, eight independent United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... experts warned in a statement published yesterday.
"Kouhkan’s case exemplifies the systemic gender bias faced by women victims of child marriage and domestic violence within Iran’s criminal justice system," the experts said. "Carrying out the execution would constitute a grave violation of international human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. law."
Kouhkan was forced into marriage at the age of 12 to her cousin, and at 13 gave birth to her son at home without medical care, the statement said.
The experts, including the special rapporteur on the rights situation in Iran and members of the working group on discrimination against women and girls, said she had been subjected to years of physical and psychological violence while working as a farm laborer.
Then in May 2018, when she was 18 years old, her husband beat both her and their five-year-old son. After she called a relative for help, a fight broke out that ended with her husband being killed.
"Goli Kouhkan is a survivor of domestic violence and a victim of the justice system," said the experts, who were mandated by the UN Human Rights Council but who do not speak on behalf of the United Nations.
The experts highlighted that Kouhkan, who is illiterate and had no access to legal representation, was reportedly coerced into accepting full responsibility for her husband’s death.
The victim’s family had meanwhile agreed to forgo her execution if she paid so-called "blood money," something that is permitted under Iran’s sharia law.
But the statement stressed that the equivalent of $90,000 being asked for was "considerably higher than the recommended rate and far beyond her reach."
They pointed out that nearly half of the 241 women executed in the country between 2010 and 2024 were sentenced for homicide, mainly of husbands or intimate partners.
According to human rights groups including Amnesty International, Iran is the world’s second most prolific executioner after China.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[ZH] Meta shares jumped the most in months after a Bloomberg report said Mark Zuckerberg is preparing deep cuts to the company's metaverse ambitions. The metaverse, once pitched by Zuckerberg as the "next chapter of the internet," has been nothing more than a colossal failure.
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
