fraudster

Investigators of the Investigative Committee for the Brest region are establishing the circumstances of fraud in the provision of advertising services on the Internet. This was reported to BelTA by the Investigative Committee. According to the investigation, a 25-year-old man took possession of...

BelTA learned this from the police department of the Minsk City Executive Committee. A 45-year-old Minsk resident who became a victim of fraud turned to the capital's law enforcement officers for help. In a social network, a woman met a foreigner who allegedly worked for an oil company in...

The Chernihiv regional police Department received a series of reports from citizens that they suffered as a result of fraudulent actions when trying to buy "pumped" accounts for computer games. In all these cases, the victims agreed to the seller's mandatory condition of pre-payment of the full...

An elderly Muscovite woman was very happy when her son got a pen pal on the Internet. The dark-skinned beauty said that she is a "US servicewoman" who urgently needs money to fly to her future husband. In the correspondence, the "girl" stated that she was already flying out, but she needed to...

They know all the information about us: first name, last name, place of work, amount of earnings, and sometimes home address and information about relatives. People who call themselves police officers, bank employees, or pension fund employees on the other end of the phone. Often, the amount of...

In the municipalities of Cabo Roo and Torrevieja in the province of Alicante, as well as in Los Urrutias (Cartagena), a group of ten people was detained, who are suspected of fraud involving fake DNI. According to investigators, those arrested used false documents to sign contracts with...

According to statistics, fraud ranks first among crimes. Sadly. But more and more people are resorting to this method of earning money. Who are these people? What are they? Why will some never do this, when for others it almost becomes a way of life? Let's figure it out. Qualities of scammers...

An attacker disguised as a bank employee convinced citizens that their accounts were being hacked and offered a "protective" algorithm. As a result, the attacker was enriched by more than 146 thousand hryvnias. Operatives and investigators have established that a 25-year-old resident of one of...

The US authorities appealed to the court to confiscate Tether (USDT) in the amount of almost 200 thousand dollars, which are stored on the Binance crypto exchange. This lawsuit is related to a fraud case, as a result of which the man lost more than a million dollars. This is stated in the...

Having promised quick earnings and using citizens for their illegal purposes, telephone scammers call the police on duty and transmit information about their accomplices. Such a case was registered in the Irkutsk region. The woman who called the helpline number called herself a fraudster and...

Will the life of a phone bully be enough to pay off a debt to the state? A U.S. federal court has imposed a $ 9,918,000 fine and issued an activity ban to an individual named Scott Rhodes for making thousands of fake automated robocalls to residents of the United States. Robocalls are...

The St. Petersburg police, together with the KLYUCHAVTO corporate security Service, identified and stopped attempts to steal cars from dealerships for sale on the black market. One of the scammers was arrested. The criminals acted as follows. A member of an organized criminal group used forged...

Thus, the defendant deceived two citizens and a limited liability company for more than 200 thousand hryvnias. Law enforcement officers found that the suspect called the victims, and posing as an employee of one of the mobile operators, received their personal data. In the future, the attacker...

In the summer, the police of the Ternopil region detained an attacker who beat a serviceman and took away his weapon. The attacker was taken into custody, and computer equipment was seized at his place of residence during the search. The cyber police of the Ternopil region, together with the...

The investigation revealed a simple and budget-friendly way to find out everything about your neighbors. In a joint investigation of the portals 404 Media and Court Watch, it is reported that the authorities of the state of Baltimore, USA, accused a man of running a service for quick and cheap...

The Central Bank of Russia warned about a new way to deceive citizens. The Central Bank of Russia has warned that fraudsters have begun to use a new method of deceiving citizens. They get in touch with potential victims on behalf of their relatives, friends or colleagues, imitating their voices...

The victims were promised full recovery of the stolen data, but it was not so easy. Victims of the Royal and Akira ransomware were attacked by a fraudster posing as a cybersecurity researcher. The attacker promised to hack the servers of the original attackers and delete the stolen data. Royal...

Having created an account under the guise of a woman, the attacker communicated with the victim for a long time on the Internet and cheated for money. The fraudster was found to be involved in 11 episodes of fraudulent actions. Now he faces up to three years in prison. The call center of the...

A 38-year-old Uman resident applied to the Zvenigorod police department. The woman said that she was looking for a part-time job in order to have funds for the restoration of the apartment. She came across an attractive ad on the Internet that talked about the possibility of quickly improving...

The victim believed, followed all his instructions and, as a result, lost money. She went to the police when she realized that she was a victim of fraudsters. As employees of the police department No. 4 in Zalishchiki established, a foreigner who introduced himself as a military man from Syria...