scammers

The action caused a storm of discussions and concerns among users. The Tor Project explained its decision to remove several network relays that posed a threat to the security and privacy of all users. Tor relays, being key elements in the Tor network's traffic anonymization system, are...

A large-scale anti-phishing operation led to arrests. Europol has reported on the activities of a large group of voice phishing (vishing) scammers who defrauded victims in Europe of tens of millions of euros. Call centers of criminals were located in Ukraine. The main blow was inflicted by the...

Researchers found several fake accounts on the social network X, whose operators pretend to be specialists in investigating cryptocurrency scams and representatives of companies involved in blockchain security. To attract potential victims, scammers publish reports about hacking major...

Members of a transnational group stole confidential banking data of foreigners from more than 300 popular online trading platforms. The damage caused is almost 800 thousand euros. Police searched the home of the owner of one of the crypto wallets that were used to legalize funds. Attackers used...

Scammers, to deceive a rich heir in Yakutia, created a phishing site — on November 2, the Yakutsk police accepted a statement from a 39-year-old man about stealing 13,391,000 rubles from him. It should be noted that the applicant went to the police at the insistence of a close relative who was...

A local resident contacted the Northern Police Department of the city of Kursk. For about a month, he communicated with "investment consultants" and "invested" 2,700,000 rubles in cryptocurrency, but now he has lost access to funds. According to the 33-year-old Kuryanin, he came up with the...

Hey everyone, I recently fell victim to a cheating scammer who advertises on https://validmarket.io. This person claims to have excellent reviews and is a verified seller. However, upon closer inspection, it seems that the reviews are fake, likely posted by the same individuals. After being...

On Wednesday, November 1, two cases of fraud occurred in Pärnumaa, as a result of which victims lost a total of 7,300 euros. In the first case, a person living in Pärnumaa was contacted on Instagram by a woman who offered to make money with the help of investments. The victim repeatedly...

A man and a woman searched for displaced persons in Telegram channels and offered to receive supposedly financial assistance from foreign partners. To do this, residents went to a fake phishing site, entered their bank card details, and the scammers withdrew all the money from their accounts...

In the Republic of Tatarstan, a local resident contacted the duty station of the Yamashevsky police Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in Kazan with a report about the disappearance of his 26-year-old sister. The young man explained that the day before in the morning she...

The service makes it easier for inexperienced hackers to conduct spam campaigns. Trend Micro experts have identified a new service that allows you to create hundreds of fake social media accounts in a matter of seconds, becoming accessible to low-level cybercriminals. A service called Kopeechka...

Thai law enforcement agencies have issued a warning in connection with the spread of a simple but effective trick for fraudsters to safely cash out illegally obtained funds. As the Bangkok Police Investigation Department (IDMB) warns, criminals are on duty at ATMs and ask random people to help...

From hacking social networks to pig butchering: what did the educational program include? Nigerian police have exposed an organized group of cyber scammers in Abuja, the capital of the country. On September 13, 2023, six suspects were detained. Representatives of the law also defeated the...

The attackers were exposed by employees of the Department of Combating Cybercrime in the Ivano-Frankivsk region together with investigators of the investigative department of the region under the procedural guidance of the Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Prosecutor's Office. The scheme was organized...

"Investigators of the Investigative Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia have completed the investigation of a high-profile criminal case about a criminal community, whose members committed numerous embezzlements of citizens' funds under the guise of brokerage activities by...

South Africa has seen a sharp increase in cases of online banking fraud, as well as physical hacking of ATMs. This information, with reference to a study by the South African Banking Risk Information Center (SABRIC), was shared by the publication My Broad Band. "South Africa has seen a huge...

Work, money and time – this is what the applicants paid for their naivety. Cybersecurity company CloudSEK uncovered an international criminal network allegedly linked to China, during which fraudsters enrich themselves at the expense of the naivety of job seekers around the world. The scheme...

Domain Gang experts found out that scammers use the imperfection of the GoDaddy registrar's policy to acquire domain names at auctions for a song, in fact, by collusion and deception. An investigation by network specialists has shown that the auctions of many long and short domain names, the...

The cyber police of Lviv region, together with investigators of the Lviv RUE No. 1 region, exposed two scammers who deceived citizens under the guise of fees for the needs of military personnel. Law enforcement officers sent an indictment to the court. The defendants created a fake account on a...

In May 2023, employees of the Department of Internal Affairs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for the city of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, as a result of operational search activities, detained three men aged 24 to 31 years in Ufa, suspected of fraud...