fraud

An investigator of the Main Investigation Department of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for the city of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region has completed the investigation of a criminal case on charges of a 39-year-old resident of the...

A Homel resident with a criminal record for committing fraud deceived a resident of Mogilev, selling her a non-existent car. This was reported in the Department of Internal Affairs of the Mogilev Regional Executive Committee. A 40-year-old local resident turned to the operational-duty service...

Estonian law enforcement agencies have detained two founders of a closed cloud service for mining cryptocurrencies HashFlare. They are suspected of participating in a $575 million fraud scheme. The HashFlare service was created in 2015 and allowed users to rent cloud facilities for mining...

The convict tried to be anonymous, but a series of mistakes gave him away. A former Motorola technician in the United States has admitted that he tried to fraudulently obtain a passport while awaiting trial for a cyberattack on his former employer. Andrew Man, 28, from Derry, United States...

Hong Kong police began investigating the activities of the Hounax cryptocurrency platform, receiving complaints from 131 people, whose total losses amounted to 120 million Hong Kong dollars (about $15.4 million). According to police, the alleged scammers communicated with the affected users via...

Attackers created and sent phishing links under the guise of issuing social assistance. In this way, they obtained data on citizens bank cards and then appropriated money from them. The defendants were declared suspicious. The suspects face up to twelve years in prison. The members of the group...

According to the Federal Prosecutor's Office for the Southern District of New York in Manhattan, on November 3, 37-year-old Alexander Gulkarov, nicknamed "Little Alex", pleaded guilty to fraud with health insurance of victims of road accidents, bribes and other crimes. The Queens-based "Kid"...

Lozovskaya District Prosecutor's Office of Kharkiv region approved and sent to the court an indictment against a 31-year-old man on the fact of fraud committed by prior agreement by a group of persons (Part 2 of Article 190 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine). According to the investigation, a...

Actor Pavel Derevyanko was accused of large-scale fraud — the day before yesterday, the police opened a criminal case on the fact of fraud on a particularly large scale. The victim in this case is the director of the printing company Sergey Nikolenko, who claims that in the period from...

The hacker behind the exploit of the decentralized exchange Mango Markets, which caused $110 million in damage, was arrested in Puerto Rico on charges of market manipulation and fraud. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has accused Avraham Eisenberg of knowingly and intentionally participating...

He faces up to 115 years in prison. A jury in the United States on November 3, 2023, following a five-week trial, found the creator of the FTX crypto exchange, Sam Bankman-Fried, guilty on all seven charges. He was charged with fraud using electronic means, criminal conspiracy and embezzlement...

Law enforcement agencies of the Republic of Kazakhstan have identified more than 13.7 thousand cases of Internet fraud since the beginning of 2023, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of the country Igor Lepekha said. As a result of illegal actions, more than 13.5 thousand people were injured...

The user's inattention may result in the loss of confidential data. Specialists of the information security company Malwarebytes discovered the Google Ads advertising campaign, which directs users to the fake KeePass site. To mask their malicious actions, attackers use the Punycode method to...

Microsoft and Amazon are eliminating criminal schemes that have caused losses of millions and a threat to corporations. India's Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has raided 76 locations across the country as part of a crackdown on cybercrime campaigns involving tech support and...

Manchester police are investigating a bank fraud case that may involve elderly Britons. According to the Manchester Evening News, the group included an 81-year-old man and a 76-year-old woman. Their accomplice was a younger man, who is "only" 46 years old. While the investigation is underway...

An employee of the Federal Bureau of Investigation from the Texas city of El-told about scammers who pretend to be representatives of the local branch of law enforcement agencies and try to force victims to transfer crypto assets to them. Fraud takes place in several stages, designed to make...

American media are increasingly paying attention to cases of stolen checks. In particular, the New York channel ABC 7 drew attention to the fact that the number of such cases in the city has doubled in comparison with 2022. As an example, journalists cited the story of a resident of the Queens...

Old age is not a joy. For everyone except phone scammers. Experts from Rush University in Chicago tested how well older people are versed in common types of fraud. The journal JAMA Network Open published the results of an experiment in which researchers contacted the target group on behalf of...

The Pechersk District Prosecutor's Office of Kyiv sent to the court an indictment against the organizer and members of an organized criminal group on charges of committing intentional grave and especially grave crimes related to the embezzlement of funds of Ukrainian citizens by fraudulent means...

Rashon Russell, a former employee of the German investment bank Deutsche Bank, admitted to involvement in a scam scheme to defraud 29 clients of the R3 crypto fund for $1.5 million. According to the federal court in Brooklyn, the defendant also confessed to stealing personal information...