A Jamaican national has been sentenced to seven years in prison for orchestrating a fraudulent lottery scam that specifically targeted elderly Americans. Linton Stewart, 40, of Jamaica, was sentenced by …
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Okezie Ogbata, a 36-year-old Nigerian man, pleaded guilty to defrauding over 400 elderly and vulnerable victims of more than $6 million in a scheme orchestrated with his co-conspirators. The scam …
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Tirupati police have arrested seven members of a notorious gang of cyber criminals involved in a ‘digital arrest’ scam. The gang, which defrauded a 65-year-old woman of Rs 2.5 crore, …
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Pierce County Deputies Arrest Man in $14,800 Senior Scam Pierce County sheriff’s deputies are alerting the community to an active scam network after a 71-year-old Ashford, Washington woman was swindled …
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Government Impersonation Scams
Delhi Police Arrest Cyber Fraudster Bablu Kumar Mahato
by Ananya MehtaThe Delhi Police have arrested 24-year-old Bablu Kumar Mahato for allegedly defrauding a man of Rs 1.3 lakh by impersonating a relative. The arrest was made in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, …
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Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) in Kenya have arrested Stephen Mugambi Colbert, a man accused of orchestrating a sophisticated fraud scheme that swindled a Nigerian national out …
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Richard Jones, 50, has denied murdering 30-year-old Sophie Evans but admitted to manslaughter in connection with her death. Evans, a mother of two, was found dead in her Llanelli home …
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Government Impersonation Scams
Gurusampath Kumar & S. Lakshminarayanan Arrested for Rs. 40 Lakh Scam
by Ananya MehtaIn a significant fraud case, the Chennai police recently arrested Gurusampath Kumar and S. Lakshminarayanan for scamming a Trichy-based jeweler, M. Praveen, of Rs. 40 lakh. The two accused posed …
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Romance Scams
Venu Bhaskar Reddy Arrested in Honey Trap Scam with Koruprolu Joy Jamima
by Ananya MehtaIn a breakthrough, Venu Bhaskar Reddy, the prime accused in a honey trap scam, was arrested by the Airport Police on Saturday. The case, which was solved earlier this year …
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The Neptune Beach Police Department, in collaboration with the Department of Homeland Security, has arrested Deborah Ramsay, a woman accused of defrauding a victim of $7,800. Ramsay, a Jamaican national, …