All news on the topic: Fraud

The victims received emails with distorted lies about their potential after being lured in by deceptive social media advertisements.

Newly uncovered documents by reporters indicate that Andrew and Tristan Tate were part of a profit-sharing deal with a casino company whose owners are currently being investigated for forming a violent organized crime group.

Google Chrome is reportedly being targeted by criminals who inject malicious code into browser extensions, enabling them to steal user data and commit scams.

In an era when information is accessible to everyone, it is surprising that people continue to give their money to scammers and allow them to cause harm. A case in point is "doctor" Mariyat Mukhina, about whom even a superficial internet search warns about the need to avoid her clinic.

Former Co-operative Bank chairman and ex-Methodist minister Paul Flowers has been sentenced after being found to have abused his position as the executor of a will for a ’vulnerable person’.

Cottrell, who served eight months for fraud, paid £15,000 for the Reform party leader’s flight to the US in December.

Billy McFarland, the founder of the infamous 2017 Fyre Festival, has shocked the world by confirming a sequel event, Fyre Festival II.

Generation Zoe Ponzi founder Leonardo Cositorto has been found guilty of fraud and criminal association.

The curators of the Belarusian gambling business, including H Casino and its owner Mustafa Egemen Shener, may be linked to the entourage of the Dagestan senator, oligarch Suleyman Kerimov, who has close ties with the Russian authorities.

Billionaire Elon Musk has once again attracted attention with a strange claim that ’vampires are real’ and that ’people are living to 150’ as he called for a ’cursory examination’ of Social Security.

In 2024, cryptocurrency scams were responsible for receiving at least $9.9 billion on-chain, a figure that is expected to rise as we continue to identify more illicit addresses linked to fraud and scams in the upcoming months.

Aftab Baig submitted fraudulent small business grant claims to Leeds City Council for 32 properties, which were branches of the firm, during the coronavirus pandemic in May 2020.

Over 4,300 potential victims were saved by Operation Level Up intervention before millions could be lost to fraud.

Federal prosecutors dropped bribery and fraud charges against NYC Mayor Eric Adams, pointing to his support for the deportation of illegal immigrants. The case may be reconsidered after the 2025 election.

Elizabeth Genia was appointed governor of the Bank of Papua New Guinea despite fighting in court to block a police investigation into suspected money laundering. She has not been charged.

Steve Bannon, the confidant of President Donald Trump, pleaded guilty Tuesday to defrauding New Yorkers who donated to "We Build the Wall," an online fundraiser for Trump’s signature project during his first term, in exchange for a sentence without prison time.

An investigation reveals how suspected mafia-linked companies used fake documents to win 100 million euros in EU-funded contracts in Romania.

The tall, shiny buildings which rise out of the cornfields on the Myanmar side of the Moei river are a sight so jarring you find yourself blinking to be sure you haven’t imagined it.

Prosecutors allege the duo requested funding for 34 fake jobs and pocketed the cash.

Is Russian billionaire Arkadiy Rotenberg, known as ’Putin’s wallet,’ monopolizing Ukraine’s gambling market through Belarusian companies SoftSwiss and CoinsPaid?

A financial company found itself at the center of a scandal due to suspicions of money laundering in favor of the gambling business. LLC «Tech-Soft Atlas» (TM «bill_line») and its actual manager Artem Lyashanov are trying through the court...

Online shopping fraud rose quickly to cost consumers more than £56 million last year, marking an increase of 20% in shopping scams.

Greek court orders mining magnate Beny Steinmetz’s extradition to Romania, as legal battles and allegations of fraud continue across Europe.

Rachel Reeves could be poised to use a £5.2billion Bitcoin windfall to help address Labour’s much-lamented "black hole" in the public finances.

The suspects allegedly hired 197 positions for a network of fake companies, in order to defraud EU and Romanian government subsidies aimed at helping the unemployed.