All news on the topic: Scams And Fraud

A new study by a U.S. non-profit promoting good business practices shows the number of scams and volume of money lost by victims are rising worldwide.

A former Georgian defense minister is under investigation for his alleged role in a sprawling international call center scam that duped European victims out of their savings, prosecutors said Friday.

Three men have pleaded guilty to running a website enabling criminals to circumvent banking anti-fraud checks.

Schwartz Konstantin Valerievich is a notorious white collar criminal based in Russia. He has faced multiple cases for embezzling funds from Rosenergobank.

ICIJ previously found that OneCoin’s founder Ruja Ignatova and some of her associates had bought properties worth millions in Dubai while promoting the fraudulent cryptocurrency scheme.

FCA-regulated payment institution Connectum was a notorious scam facilitator and money launderer for the fraudulent Israeli broker scene. It processed payments for the cybercrime organization of the convicted Israeli Gal Barak.

Starling’s fraud team repeatedly refused to allow UK man to send £12,800 to friend in Austria, then froze account

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.

Brothers who conspired to rob a man of his sought-after PS5 games console have both been put behind bars. The pair were caught on camera in footage that helped convict them

Thomas Signorelli has allegedly defrauded multiple sellers and fled town with their money. He reportedly scammed them out of $80,000 and $75,000 in known cases.

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

$10 UberEats vouchers sent to people who helped after global IT outage are flagged as potential fraud

Two Bosnian-Americans accused of being “ringleaders” in a US$3.4-million biofuel fraud case should be released on bail set at 50,000 euro (US$54,245) each, a court in Antwerp ruled on Tuesday.

Maxted pleaded guilty to a charge of fraud by abuse of position valued at £596,497.29 he was employed through a recruitment agency and failed to declare his previous fraud conviction

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.

The scam was exposed after cops raided his Birmingham home and found plans for a palace

A DOZY fraudster’s lotto con spiralled out of control after he stole a £1MILLION garage scratchcard - due to an unbelievably clumsy mistake.