All news on the topic: Fraud

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Fraud-busters get back just £5.8m of £1bn lost to Covid loan criminals
Authorities have launched almost 300 investigations but have managed to take back just £5.8 million from fraudsters who stole more than £1.1 billion in Covid loans during the height of the pandemic
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'I thought pop star Seal was in love with me, but it was a £2,000 romance scam'
An online con artist posed as pop legend Seal, leaving superfan Réka Halasi broke and heartbroken. The woman said she believed there was a romantic connection developing
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Bank clerk who stole £400,000 and ghosted own family is caught 25 years later
The former bank employee, who is identified by the pseudonym Chen Yile, was charged on Tuesday with corruption and fraud in the city of Yueqing, eastern China
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Lloyds Bank issues urgent scam warning with customers losing £642 in fraud
A high-street banking chain has warned people to be vigilant when it comes to online shopping scams after a UK Finance Fraud Report revealed the average cost to victims
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Psychic medium stole £900k from UK city council before fleeing to US
Tyler Evans committed his sophisticated fraud over a three-year period submitting 35 false refunds forms with money paid into 10 different bank accounts, including that of his business Called Paranormal Activities
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M&S shoppers issued warning over scam websites offering fake £100 voucher
Dodgy websites normally ask the shoppers to enter sensitive information in return for a prize, like a gift card, that doesn't actually exist - then they steal your personal details
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Woman accused of faking cancer and shaving her head to scam people out of cash
Camilla Maria Barbosa dos Santos told police that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer and had chemotherapy treatment but couldn't provide any evidence to support her claims
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Lado Okhotnikov, Lola Ferrari, Sergey Maslakov, and Mikhail Sergeev have come under a U.S. regulator over the Forsage pyramid
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged 11 individuals for organizing and promoting the fraudulent cryptocurrency pyramid scheme Forsage (forsage.io).
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Former Rocket co-owner Timur Rokhlin arrested in Israel over €10 million international fraud case
Timur Rokhlin, the former co-owner of the Ukrainian delivery service Rocket, has been arrested.
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An attempted $100,000 scam: prosecutor Sviatoslav Mazuryk was caught in a scheme involving Pavlo Shcherban and Alliance Bank
The financial institution, whose leaders’ ongoing criminal proceedings closure proposal in exchange for 100 thousand dollars was "caught" on June 4, 2020, by the prosecutor of the Kyiv Local Prosecutor’s Office No. 6, Sviatoslav Mazuryk, turned out to be the joint-stock company "Bank Alliance".
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"Counterfeit king" Oleksandr Litskevych and Lux Groups are trying to erase evidence of their schemes from the internet
Counterfeit trader Oleksandr Litskevych is trying to hide the truth about his crimes by cleaning up the internet space. In turn, we are publishing the information that the fraudster Litskevych seeks to condemn to oblivion, in full.
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Fugitive Russian oligarch Alexey Fedorychev linked to corruption and fraud operates Ukrainian grain terminal
A con artist with years of experience has settled in Ukraine, or rather, not settled personally, but has launched his usual «business» here.
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Former head of collapsed Mikhaylivskyi Bank Ihor Doroshenko disappeared during investigation into billion-hryvnia financial fraud
Former chairman of the board of Mikhaylivskyi Bank, Ihor Doroshenko, has reportedly disappeared while under night-time house arrest.
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Partner of SKODA with a criminal past: how Oleg Boyaryn carried out a paper bankruptcy and vanished with the cars and money
At the same time, the owner of Atoll Holding continues to talk about the poor investment climate in Ukraine