scam

This Oct. 24, 2016, photo shows dollar bills in New York. Fraudsters are increasingly picking up the phone and trying to steal your money by pretending to be a government worker or a family member in trouble. In 2016, impostor scams overtook identity theft to become the second-most reported fraud, according to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

The Veterans Benefits Administration takes on fraud against veterans

December being National Identity Theft Prevention and Awareness Month, VBA has programs in place to protect its own assets and to help veterans protect theirs.

Veterans Affairs

Vigilant

Adam Darrah, director of intelligence services at ZeroFOX

Service members are the most frequent victims of identity theft

Defense

Amelia Brust/Federal News Network

HHS IG, amid coronavirus, weighs ‘opportunity cost’ of each review

Agency Oversight

Security stands guard outside the main gate at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, in Hawaii, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019. A shooting at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard in Hawaii left at least one person injured Wednesday, military and hospital officials said. Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam spokesman Charles Anthony confirmed that there was an active shooting at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard. (AP Photo/Caleb Jones)

Following shootings on military bases, some Marines may now carry concealed firearms on installations

Federal Newscast

Steny Hoyer, Anthony Brown, Eliot Engel, Don Beyer

DC area lawmakers hope to block funding for BLM move

Federal Newscast

DMV lawmakers ask about pay raise…again

Federal Newscast

VA, Postal Inspection Service spot 2 scams targeting veterans

Careful, that may not be your grandson

Mike Causey

The grandparents scam

Federal Report

Bryan Drake: Protecting citizens from doctor, healthcare scams

Federal Drive

When your grandson needs bail money, be careful

Federal Report

For second time this year, OPM warns of scam targeting federal annuitants

The Office of Personnel Management is warning federal annuitants of a second scam this year. This time, companies are offering cash payments in exchange…

Workforce

Leslie R. Caldwell, Kenneth Magidson, J. Russell George,

Treasury, DOJ, DHS joining forces to fight phone scams

Dozens of people were arrested in relation to the phone scams, which targeted millions of people and resulted in more than 10,000 victims and hundreds…

Management

Caryl Bryzmialkiewicz: Data analysis helped crack $900M Medicare scam

Federal Drive

Earlier this summer, a team of FBI and Health and Human Services investigators completed a long investigation that snared 301 people trying to bilk Medicare out of $900 million. Caryl Bryzmialkiewicz, the chief data officer and assistant inspector general at HHS, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin about how they used data to find the culprits.