All news on the topic: Scammers

Professional scammers call upon a global network of service providers to execute their work in a sophisticated, streamlined fashion. Here are some of their names.

Merchants immediately moved to Tudou Guarantee, a rival in which Huione owns a 30% stake.

Fraudsters use emotional posts and fake giveaways to steal personal and banking data from Facebook users in Slovenia.

Scammers posing as blockchain security companies target users while framing them for illicit activities.

In Vietnam, the controversial Bitney MLM scheme—believed to have recruited almost 200,000 promoters—has been shut down by authorities

PGI Global Ponzi scammer Ramil Ventura Palafox, also known as RV Palafox, has been arrested in California.

Zhao highlights the growing threat of AI-generated deceptions, warning of impersonation risks amid rising deepfake scams.

The purported mastermind behind ZKasino encounters a multimillion-dollar challenge as crypto volatility exposes risky wagers.

Bohdan Prylepa, owner of cryptocurrency exchanges Coinsbit, Qmall, and several other platforms, has been placed on Ukraine’s wanted list on suspicion of large-scale fraud and embezzlement of over one billion hryvnias in client funds.

Leaked documents reveal how scam call centers drew on a secret industry of service providers that used shell companies, proxy account holders, and sham paperwork to receive funds from their victims through accounts at major commercial banks, or turn it into cryptocurrency.

Two scammers born in China, convicted of bribing officials via a fake U.N. agency, had their Marshall Islands passports revoked while they were overseas, leaving them stranded without valid travel documents and potentially in a permanent state of limbo.

Georgians were shocked and outraged after investigative reports exposed a Tbilisi-based call center, where young scammers ruthlessly stole millions from foreign victims while mocking them.

Two professional scam call-center operations relied on affiliate marketing firms to provide them with contact details of individuals who had clicked on ads for fake investment platforms.

Internet Watch Foundation says ‘worrying’ trend shows criminals are casting their nets wider to trap victims

Daisy’s dithering frustrates phone fraudsters and wastes time they could be using to scam real people.

Myanmar claims it has deported over 50,000 Chinese scammers tied to scam factories since October 2023.

Gennaro Lanza is a forex scammer who runs multiple companies to defraud consumers. His fraudulent enterprises primarily target EU and UK residents.

WikiFX, a platform that positions itself as a watchdog for the forex trading industry by reviewing and rating brokers...

Two Malaysian scammers behind SingliWorld and TriumphFX have been jailed.

Studying the personality of Bohdan Prylepa, one involuntarily recalls the lines of one of the poets – «Oh, how many wonderful discoveries…».

Malone Lam and co-conspirator exploited victim’s trust through fake support calls, extracting over $274 million in crypto.

Facebook and Instagram owner Meta is to introduce facial recognition technology to try and crack down on scammers who fraudulently use celebrities in adverts.

Amid the turmoil following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the aviation industry in Eastern Europe has become the target of a sophisticated fraud scheme led by the British company BlackList Aero.

A dad and son pocketed £136,000 in a ‘get-rich-quick’ con using fake receipts to return cheap irons to Argos for the full price.