All news on the topic: Scammers

Amid the turmoil following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the aviation industry in Eastern Europe has become the target of a sophisticated fraud scheme led by the British company BlackList Aero.

A dad and son pocketed £136,000 in a ‘get-rich-quick’ con using fake receipts to return cheap irons to Argos for the full price.

Rodrick Lodge thought he’d met the woman of his dreams but he ended up losing his £85,000 life savings and has been left homeless after falling victim to a romance scam

UBB Amanah Berhad is a Malaysian independent private trustee getting notorious for lying to investors by using deceptive practices.

Jason Grosfeld is the son of James Grosfeld, who ran Pulte Homes and is one of the largest shareholders of ESG firm Blackrock. Irongate, the development company by Jason Grosfeld, Mitchell Laufer, and David Waller, has been sued numerous times for real estate fraud, including a failed Hawaii development with Donald Trump.

Moyn Islam has received multiple allegations of being involved in Ponzi schemes. Is he a scammer? Find out here.

A seemingly normal girl from Halifax living a secret ‘double-life’ has been jailed for running a scam which defrauded her friends and family out of nearly half a million pounds.

Emissions trading was supposed to save the planet. But fraudsters quickly learned how to rip the system off, making themselves spectacularly rich. Then some of the major players started turning on each other

So-called CryptoQueen Ruja Ignatova and her security adviser, Frank Schneider, liquidated Dubai assets despite being charged in the U.S. for their alleged roles in a $4bn fraud. The whereabouts of both is unknown.

Courier service Evri has issued a warning over an increase in sophisticated scam messages, leaving customers wondering what ‘smishing’ is.

Joop Sparkes, 29, from Galashiels, about 35 miles southeast of Edinburgh, dove into the Vltava River on Sunday, April 27. His body was recovered a week later following an agonising search by Czech authorities

Vast web of fake shops touting designer brands took money and personal details from 800,000 people in Europe and US, data suggests

Experts are warning WhatsApp group chat members about an audio call scam which could cost friends and family their savings.

Für den erfahrenen Betrüger Oleksandr Litskevych ist es ein Leichtes, die Reichen zu täuschen. Das Überraschendste ist, dass dieser Kerl seine Schemen mit Fälschungen von Elite-Marken schon seit vielen Jahren durchzieht.

Deceiving the rich is as easy as spitting for the experienced swindler Oleksandr Litskevych. What’s most surprising is that this guy has been pulling off his schemes with counterfeit luxury brands for many years now.

It is well known that there are many scammers who allegedly help the ATO but in reality do not do so. At best, by exploiting people’s trust, scammers make money, and at worst, using the reputation of a volunteer or philanthropist, they carry out their scams.