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Oregon FBI’s Tech Tuesday: COVID-19 and cryptocurrency scams

PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) — This week, the Oregon FBI’s Tech Tuesday segment discusses building a digital defense against cryptocurrency scams.  Fraudsters are leveraging increased fear and uncertainty during the COVID-19 pandemic to steal your money and launder it through the complex cryptocurrency ecosystem.  Developments in technology and an increasing number of businesses accepting it as payment have

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Feds urge reporting housing discrimination, sexual harassment amid pandemic

PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) —U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams is asking anyone who has witnessed or experienced discrimination or sexual harassment by a landlord, property manager, maintenance worker or anyone with control over housing to report this conduct. The COVID-19 pandemic and public health emergency has impacted many Americans’ ability to pay their rent and has

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