July 12th, 2018
Twenty-Five Individuals
Charged in a Wichita Falls
and Vernon Texas Drug
Conspiracy
In a collaborative effort
by the Safe Streets Task
Force, to include agents and
officers from the FBI and
Wichita Falls Police
Department, Twenty-two
individuals are in federal
custody on a federal
Complaint for a drug
trafficking conspiracy.
Details
July 12th, 2018
Business E-Mail
Compromise: The $12 Billion
Scam
Business E-mail
Compromise (BEC)/E-mail
Account Compromise (EAC) is
a sophisticated scam
targeting both businesses
and individuals performing
wire transfer payments.
The scam is frequently
carried out when a subject
compromises legitimate
business e-mail accounts
through social engineering
or computer intrusion
techniques to conduct
unauthorized transfers of
funds.
The scam may not always
be associated with a request
for transfer of funds. A
variation of the scam
involves compromising
legitimate business e-mail
accounts and requesting
Personally Identifiable
Information (PII) or Wage
and Tax Statement (W-2)
forms for employees.
Details
June 29th, 2018
Federal Grand Jury
Indicts Dallas Man for
Securities Fraud
An indictment returned by
a federal grand jury
yesterday in Dallas charges
Patrick O. Howard, 36, of
Dallas, Texas, with offenses
related to his role in a
scheme to defraud investors
and to obtain money by
materially false and
fraudulent pretenses.
Details
June 22nd, 2018
Previously Convicted
Black Hat Search Engine
Optimizer Sentenced for
Retaliating Against His
Former Victim
William Laurence Stanley,
54, of Dallas, Texas, a
self-proclaimed black hat
search engine optimizer and
reputation manager was
sentenced June 12, 2018, by
U.S. District Judge Sidney
A. Fitzwater to serve 97
months in federal prison and
ordered to pay $5,605,226 in
restitution, following a
five-day trial in April
2017.
Details
June 21st, 2018
Dallas Man Arrested at
Los Angeles International
Airport on $62.6 Million
Investment Fraud Scheme
Christopher A. Faulkner,
41, from Dallas, Texas, was
arrested Monday, June 18,
2018, at the Los Angeles
International Airport by
special agents with the
Internal Revenue
Service-Criminal Division
(IRS-CI), Federal Bureau of
Investigation (FBI), with
assistance from Customs and
Border Patrol. Faulkner was
arrested on a federal
complaint, charging him with
securities fraud, mail fraud
and money laundering, in
connection with a scheme to
defraud investors of
millions of dollars. Details
June 14th, 2018
Mexican Citizen
Sentenced to 235 Months in
Federal Prison
Javier Contreras Vargas,
aka “Cuñado,” a citizen of
Mexico and in the United
States illegally, was
sentenced Monday, June 11,
2018, for his role in a
methamphetamine distribution
conspiracy.
Details
May 25th, 2018
Foreign Cyber Actors
Target Home and Office
Routers and Networked
Devices Worldwide
The FBI recommends any
owner of small office and
home office routers power
cycle (reboot) the devices.
Foreign cyber actors have
compromised hundreds of
thousands of home and office
routers and other networked
devices worldwide. The
actors used VPN Filter
malware to target small
office and home office
routers. The malware is able
to perform multiple
functions, including
possible information
collection, device
exploitation, and blocking
network traffic.
Details