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Inside the $10 Billion Debt Settlement Machine: Stop-Paying Scripts, 25 Percent Fees, and a Bureau That Prefers a Quiet Meeting
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December 22, 2025
Inside the $10 Billion Debt Settlement Machine: Stop-Paying Scripts, 25 Percent Fees, and a Bureau That Prefers a Quiet Meeting
For-profit debt settlement shops still tell clients to stop paying cards and take 15 to 25 percent. Card balances hit $1.26 trillion while federal enforcement got quieter.
Visa and Mastercard Kept Settling OnlyFans Charges After a Whistleblower Says They Were Warned About Child Sexual Abuse Material
Crime News
January 24, 2025
Visa and Mastercard Kept Settling OnlyFans Charges After a Whistleblower Says They Were Warned About Child Sexual Abuse Material
A compliance specialist told FinCEN that Visa and Mastercard kept clearing OnlyFans payments after 2021 warnings about child sexual abuse material. Both companies deny it. Plaintiffs later cited that account…
Newark Indicted Curitiba’s Junior Barros De Oliveira for a $3.2 Million Bitcoin Extortion That Brazil’s Constitution Will Not Extradite
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December 26, 2024
Newark Indicted Curitiba’s Junior Barros De Oliveira for a $3.2 Million Bitcoin Extortion That Brazil’s Constitution Will Not Extradite
A Newark indictment unsealed December 23, 2024, charges Junior Barros De Oliveira of Curitiba with threatening to leak about 300,000 customer records unless he was paid about $3.2 million in…