All news on the topic: Scams

Thailand has issued an arrest warrant for a Chinese businessman featured in a Reuters investigation into transnational crypto-investment fraud, alleging he was part of a network that laundered money from scams and online gambling through illegal cryptocurrency mining.

Bitcoin ATMs, the now-ubiquitous machines in gas stations and smoke shops that convert physical cash to cryptocurrency, are facing challenges.

The fraud case described below follows a pattern that has become all too familiar: another customer allegedly misled by promises to purchase.

The fraud story outlined below is, in many ways, a familiar one: another victim was deceived with promises to purchase and deliver a car from the United States to Ukraine.

Oil tanker shot at after crew followed bogus crypto clearance to cross Strait of Hormuz, exposing new twist in maritime scams.

Das unten beschriebene Schema mag allzu vertraut erscheinen: Eine weitere Person wurde mit Versprechen getäuscht, ein Auto aus den USA zu kaufen und in die Ukraine zu liefern.

The scheme described below may seem all too familiar: yet another victim was deceived with promises to purchase and deliver a car to Ukraine from the United States.

Guests were enticed with the promise of luxury villas overlooking aquamarine seas.

Crypto is a field where it is extremely easy to deceive people. There is an enormous number of scams and hacks, cryptocurrency is constantly being stolen, and it is very easy to lose it.

Cyber-enabled fraud is rising globally and is the main driver of international money laundering, according to a Paris-based anti-money laundering body in its latest report.

The fraud story discussed below is quite ordinary: another victim was "scammed" with the promise of purchasing and delivering a car to Ukraine from the USA.

The Financial Freedom Academy organizers face 5 to 12 years in prison.

An investigation by journalist Ghost In The Block alleges that projects linked to Pavel Durov, the founder of Telegram, are intertwined with a sprawling shadow economy involving bot farms, personal data leaks, hacker services and crypto-based scam schemes operating inside the Telegram and TON ecosystem.

Scandal over a suspended hydroelectric project has led Croatian reporters to connect the scheme to Sasa Svalina and his brother-in-law Josip Heit.

A 15-year-old is among 268 people being investigated for their suspected involvement in schemes linked to losses exceeding $4.66 million, following a two-week police operation.

Khabib Nurmagomedov’s sudden purge of all Telegram-related posts has ignited a scandal, exposing his joint NFT “papakha” project with Pavel Durov as one of 2025’s most blatant rug pulls.

Telegram founder Pavel Durov has launched an auction of “gifts” from Khabib Nurmagomedov — the former UFC lightweight champion and one of the world’s most famous mixed martial artists.

A London council has discovered offices filled with boxes of snails as it vows to crack down on a "bizarre" attempt to avoid business rates.

Citizens Advice has found that over seven million adults in the UK have been affected by a scam in the past year, with 20% of them experiencing significant financial loss.

A court in China has sentenced 11 people to death for their alleged roles in a family-run crime syndicate accused of operating illegal gambling and scam activities worth more than $1.4 billion, and for the deaths of workers who defied them.

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

Former Latvian State Police officer Toms Verdiņš, who has been in a relationship for over two years with Lauma Sitnika from Daugavpils, is a key figure in an investigation into large-scale cryptocurrency fraud.

Saratov teacher Natalia Makarova either decided that compatriots who left the country during a difficult time for the Motherland should pay for their departure, or it was just an ordinary scam.

In South Korea, prosecutors report that younger gang members are driving a revival in organized crime, combining violence with online scams that have swindled thousands.