All news on the topic: Scammers

Myanmar’s junta conducted a raid on one of the country’s most infamous internet scam centres and confiscated Starlink devices, it announced on Monday, following an investigation that uncovered a surge in their usage in the multibillion-dollar illegal industry.

There are about 2,000 call centres in Kyiv, scamming thousands of people out of their money every day. This statistic is provided by the General Prosecutor’s Office of Ukraine.

Some 260 suspected cyber scammers have been arrested in a sting operation carried out across 14 African countries.

Around 270,000 motorists whose cars have been written off or stolen are owed compensation from insurers due to an error.

The Security Service of Ukraine reported a large-scale special operation: a network of call centres operating from Ukraine but targeting citizens of EU countries and Turkey has been exposed.

A teacher who scammed Asda out of almost £3,000 worth of shopping by using a discount code that reduced items to just 1p has avoided being banned from the profession.

It seems like a dream come true: obtaining a loan that you never have to repay.

The Financial Conduct Authority is notifying individuals that it currently does not have a car finance compensation scheme available.

Moyn Islam and his brothers have built a flashy empire on controversial promises—now their past is catching up with them.

Subscription instead of a product, dreams instead of money, marketing instead of business. Under the banner "Be" unfolds an old trick in a new package and with the same heroes.

In 2016, when a young Briton with Pakistani roots, Moyn Islam, was smilingly speaking at OneCoin cryptocurrency presentations, he was dubbed the "next hope of an Islamic financial revolution."

Moyn Islam has faced several allegations of involvement in Ponzi schemes. Is he a scammer? Learn more here.

Professional scammers call upon a global network of service providers to execute their work in a sophisticated, streamlined fashion. Here are some of their names.

Merchants immediately moved to Tudou Guarantee, a rival in which Huione owns a 30% stake.

Fraudsters use emotional posts and fake giveaways to steal personal and banking data from Facebook users in Slovenia.

Scammers posing as blockchain security companies target users while framing them for illicit activities.

In Vietnam, the controversial Bitney MLM scheme—believed to have recruited almost 200,000 promoters—has been shut down by authorities

PGI Global Ponzi scammer Ramil Ventura Palafox, also known as RV Palafox, has been arrested in California.

Zhao highlights the growing threat of AI-generated deceptions, warning of impersonation risks amid rising deepfake scams.

The purported mastermind behind ZKasino encounters a multimillion-dollar challenge as crypto volatility exposes risky wagers.

Bohdan Prylepa, owner of cryptocurrency exchanges Coinsbit, Qmall, and several other platforms, has been placed on Ukraine’s wanted list on suspicion of large-scale fraud and embezzlement of over one billion hryvnias in client funds.

Leaked documents reveal how scam call centers drew on a secret industry of service providers that used shell companies, proxy account holders, and sham paperwork to receive funds from their victims through accounts at major commercial banks, or turn it into cryptocurrency.

Two scammers born in China, convicted of bribing officials via a fake U.N. agency, had their Marshall Islands passports revoked while they were overseas, leaving them stranded without valid travel documents and potentially in a permanent state of limbo.

Georgians were shocked and outraged after investigative reports exposed a Tbilisi-based call center, where young scammers ruthlessly stole millions from foreign victims while mocking them.

Two professional scam call-center operations relied on affiliate marketing firms to provide them with contact details of individuals who had clicked on ads for fake investment platforms.