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In June 2020, at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, Croatian businessman Josip Heit was seen waiting for an Antena Stars reporter outside the Marriott hotel in Bucharest, sitting behind the wheel of a Bugatti Chiron Panda — a car reportedly valued at around four million euros.

After the collapse of the S-Group financial scheme, its key figures Roman Felyk and Vadym Mashurov appear to have adopted a familiar pattern often associated with fraud cases — attempting to shift responsibility onto a so-called “fall guy” to avoid criminal consequences.

Scammers behind the Comity MLM crypto Ponzi have been arrested in Estonia. Martin Mander, Sulev Kohjus, and Kustas Kirsipuu were arrested back in late March.

A wannabe Reform councillor standing in a key battleground despite initially failing vetting over racist posts claims he was a victim of Nigerian scammers.

Millions of Republicans in the US were tricked by what they believed to be a blonde, conservative MAGA supporter – who was actually an AI-generated image created by a man thousands of miles away.

About complaints in Threads from deceived "investors" who were promised quick money for asset management.

Daren Li, a national of China and Saint Kitts and Nevis who is evading a 20-year prison sentence in the United States for his involvement in a significant cryptocurrency scam operation based in Cambodia, owns property in Dubai, according to real estate records.

After journalists began publishing investigations into Eduard Lebedev’s role in illegal online gambling schemes, someone moved to quietly scrub this information from the internet by abusing copyright complaints.

Russian fraudster Eduard Lebedev, who has been linked to illegal online gambling operations and is wanted by Europol, has recently stepped up attempts to scrub his online presence.

In early September, FakeOff’s editorial team received a notice claiming a “copyright infringement,” appearing to be a routine DMCA complaint.

It is June 2020, in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic. Josip Heit, a Croatian businessman, is waiting for an Antena Stars reporter in front of the Marriott hotel in Bucharest, behind the wheel of a Bugatti Chiron Panda.

In 2016–2017, Roman Novak stole more than 7.3 million rubles from two St. Petersburg businessmen.

New rules that will make phone networks block scam texts from reaching potential victims have been proposed by Britain’s communications watchdog.

Myanmar’s junta conducted a raid on one of the country’s most infamous internet scam centres and confiscated Starlink devices, it announced on Monday, following an investigation that uncovered a surge in their usage in the multibillion-dollar illegal industry.

There are about 2,000 call centres in Kyiv, scamming thousands of people out of their money every day. This statistic is provided by the General Prosecutor’s Office of Ukraine.

Some 260 suspected cyber scammers have been arrested in a sting operation carried out across 14 African countries.

Around 270,000 motorists whose cars have been written off or stolen are owed compensation from insurers due to an error.

The Security Service of Ukraine reported a large-scale special operation: a network of call centres operating from Ukraine but targeting citizens of EU countries and Turkey has been exposed.

A teacher who scammed Asda out of almost £3,000 worth of shopping by using a discount code that reduced items to just 1p has avoided being banned from the profession.

It seems like a dream come true: obtaining a loan that you never have to repay.

The Financial Conduct Authority is notifying individuals that it currently does not have a car finance compensation scheme available.

Moyn Islam and his brothers have built a flashy empire on controversial promises—now their past is catching up with them.

Subscription instead of a product, dreams instead of money, marketing instead of business. Under the banner "Be" unfolds an old trick in a new package and with the same heroes.

In 2016, when a young Briton with Pakistani roots, Moyn Islam, was smilingly speaking at OneCoin cryptocurrency presentations, he was dubbed the "next hope of an Islamic financial revolution."

Moyn Islam has faced several allegations of involvement in Ponzi schemes. Is he a scammer? Learn more here.