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9 Arrests in Juicy Fields Case Made Across Europe
As Europol and the Berlin Prosecutor’s office are reporting, a massive, cross border investigation into the Juicy Fields scam over the past two years resulted in a major police operation on Thursday April 11, involving over 400 police officers in 11 countries, over thirty search warrants and ending with the arrests of 9 so-far unnamed individuals directly involved with the fraud. The announcement comes almost four years to the day after the Juicy Fields Ponzi scheme first launched its website in Berlin. The British National Crime Agency also announced, in a clearly coordinated press outreach, that they had arrested a “senior staff member” of the scam in the…
Social Media – A Global Force In Need of Reform
It’s been less than 15 years since social media took off in the US and less than that globally. But given the huge influence of these platforms, it seems they’ve been around a lot longer. In Sweden today, 76% of all residents have a Facebook account and 54% use Facebook at least once a day – every day of the year – according to Facebook’s own statistics from 2019. If you add all the other platforms, the number of account holders is certainly over 90% of the Swedish population and almost as many globally use one of their accounts daily.…