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Operatives of the Criminal Investigation Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Tula region, together with employees of the regional FSB of Russia, detained an unemployed local resident. He is suspected of fraud committed by a group of persons by prior conspiracy...

Officers of the UBK of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region detained a local resident. He is suspected of remote fraud. "According to preliminary data, since May 2023, the attacker and his accomplices have been posting ads...

The police defeated total control in football. The National Football League (NFL) has introduced a new policy that requires all stadium employees, including police officers and media representatives, to undergo biometric facial scanning. The leader of the resistance was Steve Grammas, the head...

Officers of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Kostroma Region, as a result of operational-search measures, went on the trail and detained a 20-year-old student programmer suspected of participating in remote fraud at his place of residence...

The South Korean police reported on the detention of the alleged organizer of a large fraudulent crypto scheme, the victims of which were 158 investors. In total, the criminal lured 16 billion won ($12 million) from them. The suspect is accused of creating a fraudulent crypto investment scheme...

Malaysian authorities have thwarted a major cryptocurrency fraud scheme targeting Japanese citizens. During raids on two luxury properties in Kuala Lumpur, the police arrested 21 people. Among the suspects were 16 Chinese citizens, a woman from Laos, a Hong Kong resident, a man from Myanmar and...

Employees of the Main Directorate of Criminal Investigation of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, together with colleagues from Moscow, stopped the illegal activities of seven residents of different regions of Russia. They are suspected of embezzlement of funds committed as part of a...

In early December last year, a resident of the village of Pizhanka, born in 1984, turned to the police: the man learned that on his behalf someone had taken out an online loan from a bank in the amount of 942 thousand rubles and tried to steal this money. As it turned out, the bank blocked the...

In Chernihiv region, the police eliminated a network of fraudulent call centers. In total, the victims suffered losses of more than 5.4 million hryvnias from illegal actions. Police officers of Chernihiv region managed to expose a group of fraudsters from Nizhyn and Pryluk, who were represented...

As part of operational measures, employees of the Department for combating Cybercrime of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Udmurt Republic established the involvement of a 19-year-old Izhevsk resident in fraud against three residents of the region. The suspect purchased subscriber numbers...

Employees of the Department for Combating the Illegal Use of Information and Communication Technologies of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region stopped the activities of accomplices of remote scammers. "As a result of operational search...

UK law enforcement agencies have announced the closure of the Russian Coms platform, which was used by hundreds of scammers to deceive victims around the world. The platform, which was launched in 2021, resulted in tens of millions of pounds ' worth of financial losses, with around 170,000...

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...

Scientists at Leiden University have developed a method to predict which sellers in illegal online markets will succeed. The results of the study, published in the journal Scientific Reports, open up new opportunities for combating crime on the darknet. On the dark side of the Internet, there...

Employees of the Criminal investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the city of Korolev, the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Moscow region, as a result of operational search activities on suspicion of aiding remote scammers...

Employees of the Regional Police Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Voronezh Region, in cooperation with colleagues from the regional Departments of the FSB of Russia, detained members of an organized group. It consisted of young people aged 17 to 21 living in the...

A ransomware group has stolen 1.7 TB of data and is threatening to publish it. In the small town of Summerville, South Carolina, last week there was a major cyber attack using ransomware. The hacker group responsible for this incident claims to have stolen more than 1.7 TB of confidential...

The Krasnodar police received a message about fraud from a resident of the Moscow region. The police found that the victim on the Internet met a man who was on a business trip and was seriously injured. Believing in the difficult financial situation of the interlocutor, the victim for several...

Malefactors called citizens and, posing as employees of the bank's security service, reported suspicious transactions with their bank accounts. Thus, they got access to the personal accounts of the victims ' online banking services. The fraudulent activity was exposed by employees of the...

Nigerian police have arrested self-proclaimed cryptocurrency billionaire Linus Williams, known as Blord, on charges of digital asset fraud and terrorist financing. According to law enforcement officials, Linus Williams managed a trading platform where the purchase of USDT stablecoins and...