FIRST USA COVID-19 ANTI-FRAUD CASE ANNOUNCED
March 2nd, 2020
The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) March 22 announced the first action in federal court against fraud related to the COVID-19 pandemic after it obtained a temporary restraining order against a Texas-based website selling a bogus vaccine - coronavirusmedicalkit.com. “We will use every resource at the government’s disposal to act quickly to shut down these most despicable of scammers, whether they are defrauding consumers, committing identity theft, or delivering malware,” Assistant Attorney General Jody Hunt of the DOJ’s civil division commented ...
Full access to this article can be arranged with permission from the client that first ordered it. Please contact us to request access. Entries are uploaded to our archive at least one year after being published by a client – free access is restricted to International News Services journalists for background research only. The article date indicates when copy was filed to a client, not when posted to this archive. Upon client requests, International News Services will remove such articles from the archive or not upload them in the first place. They are included to demonstrate the breadth of topics undertaken by the agency and also to help promote clients’ coverage.