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The announcement made by the U.S. federal government in September 2016 was aimed at striking out at fraudulent “sweepstakes” mail schemes that send millions of letters to Americans annually, claiming they’ve won some sort of prize.
Sometimes the “prize” is money; other times its items like a house or a car. But to claim the prize, recipients of the mass mailings must send a cheque to cover “processing costs” or other fees. Very rarely are prizes ever awarded.
The U.S. estimates that every year millions of Americans, in hopes of winning the promised prizes, send off millions of dollars.
Processing those cheques is where the U.S. government alleges Pac-Net came in. The company was a payment processor. It had hundreds of legitimate clients around the world. The company moved money electronically over the internet. In October 2017, the company’s lawyer A. Jeff Ifrah told online law magazine The Litigation Daily, that Pac-Net’s list of clients included high-profile financial businesses, well known publications and other well-known recognizable businesses.
He didn’t rule out the possibility that some fraudsters would be using the firm’s payment processing systems to cash cheques and move money obtain through questionable methods. However he told the magazine, that Pac-Net filed hundreds of suspicious transactions reports and large cash transaction reports to the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC), which is responsible for policing Canada’s financial systems.
Ifrah admits that Pac-Net couldn’t possibly police all of the payments being processed on its networks at all times. So, it is possible that some sweepstakes fraudsters were using the company to process the cheques they were receiving.
However, after freezing the company’s assets and investigating Pac-Net’s holdings the U.S. federal government was only able to identify $5.2 million in payments processed by Pac-Net that were questionable.
“These funds are associated with transactions which (Office of Foreign Assets Control) had a reasonable factual basis to believe involve the proceeds of fraud or money laundering allegedly committed by PacNet Group clients,” said a spokesman for the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
To conduct its investigation, the department froze the assets of Pac-Net and 23 companies using its payment processing services, and identified 12 individuals believed to be involved in the organization. All of those parties identified were placed on federal government sanctions lists. Those lists include narcotics dealers.
All of those parties identified have since been removed from the government’s lists.
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Sometimes the “prize” is money; other times its items like a house or a car. But to claim the prize, recipients of the mass mailings must send a cheque to cover “processing costs” or other fees. Very rarely are prizes ever awarded.
The U.S. estimates that every year millions of Americans, in hopes of winning the promised prizes, send off millions of dollars.
Processing those cheques is where the U.S. government alleges Pac-Net came in. The company was a payment processor. It had hundreds of legitimate clients around the world. The company moved money electronically over the internet. In October 2017, the company’s lawyer A. Jeff Ifrah told online law magazine The Litigation Daily, that Pac-Net’s list of clients included high-profile financial businesses, well known publications and other well-known recognizable businesses.
He didn’t rule out the possibility that some fraudsters would be using the firm’s payment processing systems to cash cheques and move money obtain through questionable methods. However he told the magazine, that Pac-Net filed hundreds of suspicious transactions reports and large cash transaction reports to the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC), which is responsible for policing Canada’s financial systems.
Ifrah admits that Pac-Net couldn’t possibly police all of the payments being processed on its networks at all times. So, it is possible that some sweepstakes fraudsters were using the company to process the cheques they were receiving.
However, after freezing the company’s assets and investigating Pac-Net’s holdings the U.S. federal government was only able to identify $5.2 million in payments processed by Pac-Net that were questionable.
“These funds are associated with transactions which (Office of Foreign Assets Control) had a reasonable factual basis to believe involve the proceeds of fraud or money laundering allegedly committed by PacNet Group clients,” said a spokesman for the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
To conduct its investigation, the department froze the assets of Pac-Net and 23 companies using its payment processing services, and identified 12 individuals believed to be involved in the organization. All of those parties identified were placed on federal government sanctions lists. Those lists include narcotics dealers.
All of those parties identified have since been removed from the government’s lists.
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