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Noida woman scammed ₹11 lakh in digital arrest scam – everything you need to know
Online scams are on the rise in India, with scammers finding new ways to dupe people. After the lik…
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Woman loses ₹54 lakh in work-from-home scam! Here's what it is and how to protect yourself
Job hunting is something that most of us do online, be it on social media or various online job por…
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Hong Kong arrests 2 siblings for allegedly laundering nearly $50 million via crypto exchange and banks
Customs officers arrested a 28-year old woman and her 21-year-old brother in their home for launder…
Isabelle Lee
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People claiming to have been duped by 'Home Improvement' star's crypto scam say it was a 'gut punch'
Zachery Ty Bryan is best known for his role as Brad Taylor on "Home Improvement" and a string of le…
Hannah Getahun
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A hacker ripped me off for $10,000. The scam turned out to be brilliant and terrifying.
Verizon, Chase, and the police were all useless when my identity got hacked. Then Psycho Bunny came…
Avery Hartmans
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A celebrity influencer scammed victims out of $24m to fund his luxury lifestyle that he bragged about on Instagram
The FBI used the Nigerian influencer's flamboyant social media posts as evidence to charge him with…
Rachel Hosie
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FTX boss Sam Bankman-Fried calls for tougher regulations to tackle crypto scams, following arrests linked to $4.5 billion bitcoin hack
The 29-year-old crypto billionaire said stricter rules are needed to stop "scams, ponzi schemes and…
Harry Robertson
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Woman arrested after video appears to show her toddler brother smoking marijuana
A woman in Texas was arrested on Thursday after a Facebook video appeared to show her toddler broth…
Rachel E. Greenspan
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RBI tightens norms for Chinese lending apps
Chinese digital loan apps were utilising the loophole in the regulatory guidelines to dupe Indian c…
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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 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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China says it arrested over 1,100 suspects and busted 170 criminal gangs in a crypto-related money-laundering crackdown
China's arrests came about a month after it banned financial institutions from crypto-related payme…
Shalini Nagarajan
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Simon Leviev and the women who accuse him of fraud have become memes online. Experts say it's our way of coping.
Simon Leviev is the focus of Netflix's "The Tinder Swindler," which tells the story of three women …
Charissa Cheong
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Bitcoin billionaire Mike Novogratz says the $3.6 billion Bitfinex hack recovery is bullish for crypto because it shows the strengths of the blockchain
"It's a good day for the crypto security companies," Galaxy Digital boss Mike Novogratz said after …
Harry Robertson
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Finland is looking to hire a broker to sell 1,981 bitcoins seized in drug bust
The bitcoins, worth around $79 million at time of publication, are currently with Finnish Customs a…
Isabelle Lee
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A 33-year-old identity thief who bought a diamond-encrusted bitcoin pendant and stole half a million dollars gets 3 years in prison
The suspect acquired credit card information from "carding websites" on the dark web to carry out h…
Shalini Nagarajan
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A man with a brain injury was scammed out of all of his money. He and his mother are calling on social-media companies to protect disabled people from con artists.
Justin Westwood lost all of his money and much of his independence to an online scam. Now he, his m…
Bethany Dawson
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The DOJ has charged 2 men over the $1.1 million Frosties NFT 'rug pull' – and alleged they were preparing to pull off another scam
The pair of 20-year-olds, charged with fraud and money laundering, were preparing a second "Embers"…
Hamza Fareed Malik
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A retired FBI Economic Crimes Investigator rates 8 money-laundering scams in movies and TV
Retired FBI investigator Jerri Williams looks at eight money-laundering scams from popular TV shows…
Ju Shardlow
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Heather Morgan and Ilya Lichtenstein: All the latest on the NYC couple arrested over alleged Bitfinex $4.5B bitcoin-laundering plot
Everything to know about the husband and wife techies that have been arrested and accused of launde…