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  Scam alert related to banks

  HKMA

  March 19, 2026

  The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) wishes to alert members of the public to the press releases issued by the banks listed below relating to fraudulent websites, internet banking login screens, phishing emails or other scams, which have been reported to the HKMA.  Hyperlinks to the press releases are available on the HKMA website.  

  Bank	Type of Scam
  The Bank of East Asia, Limited	Fraudulent websites and internet banking login screens
  Shanghai Commercial Bank Limited	Fraudulent websites and internet banking login screens
  Chong Hing Bank Limited	Fraudulent websites and internet banking login screens
  OCBC Bank (Hong Kong) Limited	Fraudulent websites and internet banking login screens

   

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  Fraud Fusion Taskforce executes further search warrants in relation to $3.5 million fraud

  Australia Federal Police

  March 19, 2026

  Investigators from the FFT executed a search warrant at a Chipping Norton, NSW, property yesterday (18 March 2026) as part of the ongoing investigation into suspected large-scale criminal facilitation of NDIS fraud and money laundering. The joint investigation – codenamed Op Honeycomb – began in February 2025 after the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC) detected anomalies in the finances of a 31-year-old Villawood man, the director of a NDIS provider.

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  Justice Department Files Case to Revoke U.S. Citizenship of Mastermind Behind Multimillion-Dollar Tax Fraud Scheme

  US Department of Justice

  March 18, 2026

  Today, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that it has filed and served a civil denaturalization complaint in the U.S. District Court in Baltimore, Maryland, against Emmanuel Oluwatosin Kazeem, a native of Nigeria who organized a vast conspiracy to steal identities and file fraudulent tax returns. In 2017, he was convicted of 19 counts of mail and wire fraud, aggravated identity theft and conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud and sentenced to 15 years in prison. But in 2024, then-President Biden commuted his sentence after only six years.