All news on the topic: Fake

A Kazakh court has sentenced 27 members of an organized crime group to between six and eight years in prison for stealing the equivalent of $6.4 million in public funds through a fraudulent agricultural loan scheme, state news agency Kazinform reported, citing the country’s Financial Monitoring Agency.

A jealous stalker set up a fake Tinder profile claiming she had ‘a rape fantasy’ to lure men to her home.

Two alleged ringleaders of the gang operating out of Mijas Costa and Marbella have been arrested and nearly 600 forged licences seized.

Football fans have been warned about the dangers of fake football kits after more than 10,000 jerseys were confiscated from rogue sellers in Camden.

A lawsuit filed by Google against an alleged China-based phishing network may help the company seize reachable infrastructure and make fraud harder for criminals, but is unlikely to stop the broader scam ecosystem, a cybersecurity expert told OCCRP on Tuesday.

A 20-year-old Canadian has pleaded guilty in a Miami federal case tied to more than $13 million in stolen cryptocurrency, after investigators said fake support calls helped drain one victim’s Bitcoin wallet.

Ahead of Armenia’s June 7 parliamentary elections, the country has faced an unprecedented wave of Kremlin-backed disinformation.

The week following the outbreak of the US-Iran war, an AI-generated video of Keir Starmer circulated on social media, accumulating approximately 400,000 views on Facebook and Instagram.

In May 2025, Kuochun Hung, the chief operating officer of the Taiwanese media outlet Watchout, received an email from someone purporting to be Yi-Shan Chen, a well-regarded local reporter.

A man who sold over 44,000 fake doctor’s notes to help others get out of work and still get paid has been busted.

As the messages fly and grow more and more explicit, an OnlyFans punter is drawn into a chat exchange with a sexy female influencer – or so he believes.

Food delivery giant Just Eat and motoring site Autotrader are among five firms being investigated as part of a probe into fake and misleading online reviews by the UK’s competition watchdog.

A recent OCCRP investigation identified a Nigerian man who allegedly posed as a Dubai prince to scam a Romanian woman. Now, another apparent victim of the same online scam has emerged.

After journalistic investigations, Oleksandr Orlovskyi began an information cleanup: how the "crypto guru" hides the schemes of Financial Freedom Academy.

A Met Police call centre boss who sent a colleague unwanted gifts and messages purporting to be from Ronan Keating has been spared jail.

A man who pretended to be a wheelchair user in order to steal beer from a supermarket, and then violently attacked a security guard, has been jailed.

The Home Office has initiated a comprehensive investigation into almost 4,900 Sri Lankan nationals suspected of acquiring UK Health and Care Worker visas through the use of fake qualifications, falsified employment histories, and fraudulently issued vocational certificates.

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has initiated an investigation after a man claiming to be an admiral appeared at a Remembrance Sunday event wearing counterfeit medals.

A taxi driver in South Korea has been sentenced to four years and six months in prison for running an elaborate "fake vomit" scam used to extort more than 160 drunk passengers.

Amy McAuley, 35, was scheduled to stand trial on charges of theft and attempted deception after she faked her own death in an effort to evade criminal charges, but she was eventually caught.

The cost of creating convincing synthetic media has collapsed – and so has society’s ability to distinguish between real and fabricated information. So what are Europe’s rising startups doing about it?

AI-generated images of extreme poverty, children, and survivors of sexual violence are flooding stock photo sites and are increasingly being used by leading health NGOs, according to global health professionals who have expressed concern over a new era of “poverty porn.”

The Kremlin bot network known as “Matryoshka” is disseminating a fake music video on X (formerly Twitter) that ridicules Moldova’s President Maia Sandu, according to the watchdog project Bot Blocker.