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US sting operation catches crypto firms 'wash trading' to boost token values

Federal prosecutors set up a fake company to bust four crypto market makers, who they say artificia…

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M. Night Shyamalan's new thriller 'Trap' is inspired by the true story of a twisted sting operation

M. Night Shyamalan's new movie, "Trap," centers on a ruse to catch a serial killer at a concert. Th…

Olivia Singh   


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Twitter's former head of safety posed as a child in sting operations to help catch potential pedophiles before joining the company

Del Harvey, the former head of Twitter's safety, once worked with "To Catch a Predator," Wired repo…

Sonam Sheth   


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11 Israeli soldiers hospitalized for wasp stings after their tank ran over a swarm's nest in Gaza, report says

The IDF said the incident unfolded when a tank inadvertently disturbed a nest, prompting the insec…

Rebecca Rommen   


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Riverside deputies sold meth to a dealer in an undercover sting gone wrong. The suspect took off with 60 pounds of meth.

Riverside deputies met the suspect to seal a 27-kilogram (nearly 60 lbs) meth deal but were caught …

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A YouTuber with 2 million subscribers was accused of messaging a fake 13-year-old in a vigilante sting operation

Bryant Moreland, a YouTuber known as EDP445, was seemingly caught in a sting operation by another Y…

Steven Asarch   


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UK foreign secretary 'appalled' by arrest of British Virgin Islands premier in DEA drug sting

Andrew Fahie was caught in a sting operation by the US Drug Enforcement Administration, whose agent…

Catherine Neilan   


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Texas temporarily suspended alcohol permits for 12 bars after an undercover sting operation found they violated coronavirus restrictions

The undercover operation comes about a month after Texas began reopening its economy, resulting in …

Isaac Scher   


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The FBI used 'criminal influencers' to convince criminal syndicates to use a messaging app they secretly ran

The app, ANOM, was installed on barren phones with no video or camera capabilities, and was encrypt…

Azmi Haroun   


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Apple refuses to unlock an iPhone for India’s top investigative agency

High security is a feature that everyone values on their devices. We do want our photos and messag…

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ICE is reportedly using fake Facebook accounts to track undocumented immigrants and lure them into sting operations

Díaz agreed to meet the person by a local bank to sell them the piñata, the Times reports. When she…

Aaron Holmes   


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What the Allies' first humiliating encounter with the Nazis taught them about how to win World War II

The Battle of Kasserine Pass "was probably the worst performance of U.S. Army troops in their whole…

Benjamin Brimelow   


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Multiple Disney employees were arrested in an underage sex sting in Florida, law-enforcement officials say

They are among 17 people charged in "Operation Child Protector," law-enforcement officials in Flori…

Kelly McLaughlin   


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The FBI used photos of female staffers without permission in sexual predator stings, federal watchdog says

The FBI didn't trace the staffers' photos or how many times they were downloaded, copied, or dissem…

Madison Hall   


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ICE arrested an estimated 250 people who enrolled in a fake university set up by federal authorities as part of an immigration sting operation

The grand jury indictment filed against the eight recruiters alleged that "the University was being…

Grace Panetta   


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ICE set up a fake university enrolling hundreds of foreign students as part of a sting operation

At first sight, the University of Farmington looked quite legit. Its professional website - with a …

Mariana Alfaro   


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Boris Johnson's MPs are losing faith in him after a stinging by-election loss added to a series of political disasters

Conservative MPs told Insider that the by-election defeat would add to the dissatisfaction, frustra…

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Banks are conducting sting operations on their own employees. Here’s why

Many are conducting exercises, in which forensic experts pose as customers and seek services that v…

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A dark web police sting led to 179 arrests and 500 kilograms of drugs seized

FBI Director Chris Wray said the bust came at a critical time as the pandemic has come with a spike…

Isobel Asher Hamilton