Daniel Cook has been sentenced for defrauding a retired primary school teacher out of more than £300,000 in a sophisticated five-year scam. The 32-year-old manipulated his unsuspecting victim, with whom …
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Arkansas contractor Stephen Rast is behind bars, accused of scamming customers out of thousands for contracting work he was paid to do but never performed. According to the Little Rock …
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The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has charged two Chinese nationals, Daren Li (41) and Yicheng Zhang (38), for their involvement in a $73 million cryptocurrency scam. The two were …
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Kyoto police announced Tuesday that a 69-year-old man has been scammed out of gold bars worth approximately ¥100 million ($688,000). The self-employed man, residing in the Kamigyo Ward of Kyoto, …
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SEVIERVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Authorities in Sevier County have arrested Yuanbing Zhou, a 47-year-old man, after he allegedly attempted to defraud a victim of thousands of dollars. On September 19, …
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A seaside hotel and former bank offices on the Isle of Man became a hub for scammers who defrauded victims in China out of millions of dollars, according to a …
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Police Arrest Kapil Sikoriya, Kingpin Behind Anti-Iron Coin Scam
by Ananya MehtaA team led by Senior Police Inspector Vilas Supe successfully arrested Kapil Sikoriya (37) and his three accomplices—Suraj More (41), Kiran Parmar (33), and Sunny Dutta (24)—for operating a fraudulent …
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A fraudulent app named WalletConnect infiltrated the Google Play Store, targeting web3 users by mimicking a legitimate open-source protocol designed for connecting decentralized applications and crypto wallets. Security researchers at …
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Garry McNeill, 38, has avoided jail time after orchestrating a £20,000 scam that involved diverting compensation payments from deceased British Gas customers into his own bank account. As a call …
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Maxwell Rusey, formerly of Nuneaton, Warwickshire, has been sentenced to five years in prison for a romance fraud that swindled a Medway woman out of more than £120,000. Rusey was …