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Category: Online Scams
Editorial: $750 million in crypto scams last year
One day soon, those famous emails from Nigerian princes proposing to share their riches with anyone willing to give up their bank account number in…
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Medfield man sentenced to 2 and a half years in prison for online scams
An online scammer who defrauded victims by both breaching company email systems to divert funds and also romantically manipulating women into helping him was sentenced…
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Jharkhand HC defers hearing into Lalu’s petition in a fodder scam case
Jharkhand High Court on Friday deferred the hearing into a petition filed by incarcerated RJD supremo Lalu Prasad challenging his conviction in…
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Rental scams abound in Ada County’s punishing housing market
A new scam, pervasive on Craigslist, is swindling even savvy would-be renters. ADA COUNTY, Idaho — Ada County’s punishing rental market is taking another hit…
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Brazen fraudsters are using the phone number of Manchester’s COURT to scam people
Brazen fraudsters are using the official telephone number of a court in a scam designed to dupe the public out of personal details and, ultimately,…
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Talking financial scam protection with U of M
According to the Federal Trade Commission, consumers reported losing more than $5.8 billion to fraud in 2021, an increase of more than 70 percent over…
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Organised crime timeshare scam sees British money launderers jailed
A former British solicitor and his partner, a bar owner on the Costa Del Sol, have been sentenced to a total of four and a…
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French consumer group warns against new online purchasing scam
French consumer group UFC-Que Choisir has warned of a potential scam on the popular classified ads website Le Bon Coin, which works in a similar…
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Massachusetts woman wooed into losing $2.5M in growing online romance scam
First of two parts Cindy Tsai had her stomach removed in January 2021, after having been diagnosed with gastric cancer seven months earlier. Her husband…
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