Former NSA Employee Arrested on Espionage-Related Charges

Re:Former NSA Employee Arrested on Espionage-Related Charges by lm28469 on Friday September 30, 2022 @05:23AM (#33032769)

Looking at fraud statistics the vast majority of them aren't caught.

Look at the VAT fraud in Europe, billions lost, virtually nobody arrested

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_trader_fraud

> Notwithstanding these measures, MTIC fraud remains a problem for the EU. As at November 2018, calculations estimating the annual costs of the fraud range from €20 billion up to more than €100 billion (depending on methodology adopted).[21] An EU Parliament study in October 2018 found that MTIC/carousel fraud is the most damaging type of cross-border VAT fraud with an estimated €50 billion losses on average per year.

France is also hemorrhaging billions through social benefits fraud, they don't even attempt to recover most of it as they don't have the manpower

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraude_sociale_en_France

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Re:Former NSA Employee Arrested on Espionage-Related Charges by routeroff on Friday September 30, 2022 @07:52AM (#33033657)

I would be extra careful about the "billions" of social fraud in France. Wikipedia make a difference between the shortfall due to unpaid contribution (undeclared work for example) and the loss due to benefit fraud.

Different figures are given but it looks that most those "billions" are in fact shortfall and not benefit fraud.

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