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10 financial scams that shook India: A dive into deception
From Ponzi schemes to bank frauds, the Indian government and investors have fallen victim to many f…
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A personal finance TikToker claims unlimited PTO is the 'biggest scam.' Career experts say she has a point.
Unlimited vacation time has been a perk companies have offered to attract talent for a few years, b…
Lindsay Dodgson
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Here's why Gen Z loses more money to online scams than boomers
Gen Z reported losing the most money over average to online scams last year. Boomers lost less on a…
Kenneth Niemeyer
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Trump once said crypto was a scam. Disclosures show he now owns more than $1M of it.
Trump's financial disclosure reveals over $1 million in Ethereum, marking a shift from his previous…
Joshua Nelken-Zitser
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Top cryptocurrency scams of 2019 — and how most hackers got away with it
Like any heist, pulling off a successful scam in only part of the story. A truly successful cr…
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Two South African brothers have vanished with $3.6 billion of bitcoin in what could be the biggest crypto heist in history
The siblings founded Africrypt in 2019. Soon after, the brothers, along with 69,000 bitcoins worth …
Isabelle Lee
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The terrifying new AI scam
Scammers are using AI-generated voices of people's actual children to swindle them out of their cas…
Eve Upton-Clark
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The SEC is charging a man for defrauding crypto investors out of at least $7 million
The SEC says a Latvian citizen defrauded hundreds of investors via two fraudulent offerings for dig…
Carla Mozée
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A teen accused of a $36.5 million crypto theft used some of it to buy a rare gaming username — which the police used to track him down
The victim, who lives in the US, was the target of a cell phone scam known as SIM swapping.
Carla Mozée
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Revenue from crypto scams spike 81% to a near-record $7.7 billion in 2021, says Chainalysis
The surge was paced by a type of scam called "rug pulls," which is when developers unexpectedly aba…
Carla Mozée
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The Justice Department sentenced a Swedish man to 15 years in prison for a $16 million crypto-fraud scheme
Roger Nils-Jonas Karlsson's fraud targeted financially insecure investors, the DOJ said, causing ma…
Isabelle Lee
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The most successful blockchain scams have ripped off nearly $14 million from victims to date, VPN company says
"Due to their nature, blockchain projects remain profitable targets to cybercriminals," says Atlas …
Carla Mozée
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US investors reported over $50 million in losses from crypto scams to the Federal Trade Commission in the first quarter
US investors reported a roughly 80% increase in crypto scam losses since the fourth quarter of 2020…
Will Daniel
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The creator of a cryptocurrency called AriseCoin was sentenced to 5 years in prison for $4 million fraud scheme
Jared Rice, Sr. lied and said AriseBank is the world's "first decentralized banking platform" based…
Isabelle Lee
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Brazilian 'bitcoin king' arrested in an alleged $300 million embezzlement case
The arrests were made after a three-year investigation centered in the southern state of Parana.