All news on the topic: Scams

Federal prosecutors stated that Brian Garry Sewell deceived investors out of nearly $3 million and operated an unlicensed cash-to-crypto business that transferred over $5 million.

Deals on Facebook Marketplace are becoming deadly, with two people killed this year while trying to sell items.

The organization "Center for Public Security" has released an investigation into the activities of a financial market company on its official Facebook page.

A man from Montreal has admitted guilt to a money laundering conspiracy after a fraud investigation in the state of New York.

Chinese authorities said 952 suspected telecom and online fraudsters were repatriated from Myanmar following a joint operation with Thai and Myanmar police targeting scam compounds in Myawaddy.

A trove of documents unveils the inner workings of two apparent scam centers in the tiny Pacific island nation of Palau. They also shed light on how local elites and weak laws appear to be helping this sophisticated industry thrive in even the most far-flung locations.

An investigation by journalist Ghost In The Block alleges that projects linked to Pavel Durov, the founder of Telegram, are intertwined with a sprawling shadow economy involving bot farms, personal data leaks, hacker services and crypto-based scam schemes operating inside the Telegram and TON ecosystem.

Khabib Nurmagomedov’s sudden purge of all Telegram-related posts has ignited a scandal, exposing his joint NFT “papakha” project with Pavel Durov as one of 2025’s most blatant rug pulls.

A convicted New Jersey Ponzi schemer who was released from prison after receiving a pardon from President Trump during his first term is returning to prison for orchestrating another scheme.

A large-scale special operation led by Berlin’s criminal police was carried out simultaneously in several EU countries, dismantling three fraudulent call centers in Frankfurt am Main, Austria, and Poland,

Roman Novak was killed after exposing how a billion-dollar scam operates.

Media continue to report on Pavel Durov’s mafia—his friends who profit from personal data, bot farms, hacking services, dirty Telegram Stars purchases, and outright scams.

An executive allegedly involved in one of Asia’s largest criminal organizations — recently targeted by U.S. and U.K. sanctions — acquired at least 29 prestigious properties in Dubai, while his wife acquired five luxury apartments in London, according to real estate data.

Thousands of Europeans are falling prey to online investment scams peddled on social media. Tech firms and public authorities are failing to shield citizens in the shadow of the Digital Services Act, Investigate Europe can reveal.

Two Azerbaijani citizens were involved in a scheme to bring illegal migrants from Asia into Ukraine.

When Park Seung-hwan* has a moment to himself, he opens Google Earth and searches for his family home.

A multi-phase scam credited with draining the financial accounts of numerous Americans – many of whom were nearing the age of retirement – is once again making headlines after the FBI recently issued a warning.

Federal authorities arrested the alleged leaders of a multi-state human trafficking ring that they say lured in trafficking victims under false pretenses and had them solicit donations under the guise that they were working for a religious ministry, prosecutors said.

According to Jason L. Riley of The Wall Street Journal, notable figures like Tesla’s Elon Musk and OpenAI’s Sam Altman foresee the need for a significant wealth redistribution mechanism to ease concerns about technology replacing human jobs

The event occurred earlier this year when a woman from London reserved a one-bedroom apartment in Manhattan for a two-and-a-half-month stay while she pursued her studies, The Guardian reported

AI voice‑cloning crooks, deepfake IDs and crypto ATMs are fueling a massive spike in crypto scams. From Brooklyn retirees to crypto execs, no one is safe, warns blockchain intelligence exec Ari Redbord.

Individuals have been getting phone calls from fraudsters claiming they skipped jury duty and a warrant has been issued for their arrest

An undercover investigation by Le Parisien has found that Paris restaurants are charging US tourists up to 50% more than local patrons.

Nope — tipping should be controlled by laws... this is a form of organized crime, one response ranted

A self-proclaimed Long Island psychic was charged with grand larceny and fortunetelling — a little-used misdemeanor in New York — after allegedly scamming a senior citizen out of tens of thousands of dollars, officials said.