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Homeless veteran who won $400,000 through GoFundMe back on the streets
The homeless veteran who won millions of hearts last year when he used his last $20 to buy a woman gas is back on the streets despite having $400,000 pledged to him because the woman and her boyfriend are keeping the money from him. Johnny Bobbitt made headlines around the world in November after he used his last money on gas for New Jersey woman Kate McClure.
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Bitcoin fraudster & head of BitConnect India detained for ransacking millions of dollars
Divyesh Darji, the head of BitConnect in India, was detained this week at Delhi airport in India. Pertaining to a major cheating case where Darji and other conspirators are accused to wiped off millions of dollars from investors, Darji was arrested by Gujarat Criminal Investigation Department (CID) at the airport soon after his arrival from Dubai.
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Police Suspect a Shipwreck Filled With Tons of Gold Was a Cryptocurrency Scam
Last month, a South Korean company known as the Shinil Group announced it had discovered the wreckage of a 100-year old Russian warship, which the company said held 200 tons of gold bullion worth roughly $130 billion USD. Now, South Korean police are investigating the company on the suspicion that the story of sunken treasure was an elaborate cryptocurrency scam.
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Police Suspect a Shipwreck Filled With Tons of Gold Was a Cryptocurrency Scam
All traces of Shinil Group are vanishing from the internet.
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Gangsters persuaded people to have their limbs smashed in insurance scam, police say
Sicilian gangs persuaded drug addicts, alcoholics and people with mental health issues to have their limbs broken and then staged fake car accidents to get hundreds of thousands of euros as insurance payouts, according to police, who have broken up the scam.
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U.S. Breaks Up Fake I.R.S. Phone Scam Operation
With stiff sentences for 21 conspirators last week in the United States and a round of indictments in India, the Justice Department says it has broken up what appeared to be the nation’s first large-scale, multinational telephone fraud operation. Over four years, more than 15,000 victims in the United States lost “hundreds of millions” of dollars to the sophisticated scam, and more than 50,000 individuals had their personal information misused, the department said Friday.
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A sunken warship containing $130b in gold is connected to a possible crypto scam
Russia is a nuclear power. But an economic power it is not. Last year, the country’s GDP totaled around $1.6 trillion, less than that of the state of Texas. Nor is its wealth growing: Russia’s GDP in 2017 was smaller than it was in 2013, adjusting for price changes. And yet there’s no question of Russian president Vladimir Putin’s international influence. Witness his ability to hack bigger, richer countries’ democratic elections, or, as this week’s Helsinki summit highlighted, to cow Donald Trump.
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It’s called vomit fraud. And it could make your Uber trip really expensive
The next time you use Uber, check your bill. The trip could turn out to be very expensive, not just for the distance but for a type of fraud that is on the increase.
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U.S. busts massive India-based call centre scam that stole hundreds of millions
U.S. authorities have sentenced 21 people in connection with an India-based call centre scam that bilked Americans of hundreds of millions of dollars. Defendants were given sentences ranging from fines and probationary sentences to 20 years in prison, in what U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions called “the first-ever large-scale, multi-jurisdiction prosecution targeting the India call centre scam industry.”
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Why nobody ever wins the car at the mall
What happens when your personal information gets sucked into an endless marketing vortex?
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Brothers sentenced in $1.4M welfare-for-cash scheme at halal market
The former owner of a Portland halal market who, with his brother, traded $1.4 million in federal food benefits for cash was sentenced Monday afternoon in U.S. District Court to three years in prison. The federal prosecutor called the case “one of the largest, if not the largest, fraud cases involving [Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program] benefits in [Maine].”
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Bay Area man must pay $136,000 for tech-support scam against elderly
The man, who operated two Hayward-based businesses, settled FTC allegations that he helped a tech-support scam out of India.
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It’s time to stop laughing at Nigerian scammers — because they’re stealing billions of dollars
Web-savvy crime syndicates are figuring out ways to bilk billions from U.S. businesses using a combination of Internet research, computer malware and emotional manipulation.
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Hello, You've Reached Gotham's Reckoning. How May I Direct Your Call?
How many times has this happened to you? You’re trying to organize the destruction of a major metropolitan area and the overthrow of a system you view as irredeemably corrupt, but you keep having to step out of the office to take a call. That problem is no more thanks to Bloxvox, the voice muffling muzzle that lets you plot to fulfill Ra’s al Ghul’s destiny from the comfort of your desk.
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She didn't see it coming: psychic arrested for $800,000 fraud
Despite her self-proclaimed clairvoyance, a New York City psychic was arrested by the NYPD, in the latest example of fortune-teller fraud
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How Criminals Steal $37 Billion a Year from America’s Elderly
Telephone pitches, online scams and greedy family members are targeting the most vulnerable among us, and it’s about to get much worse.
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Exit scammers run off with $660 million in ICO earnings
A Vietnamese cryptocurrency company Modern Tech launched an ICO for its Pincoin token, raising $660 million from approximately 32,000 people.
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Australian jailed for fake cancer scam
An Australian woman who faked having terminal cancer before scamming money from friends of her family has been jailed for three months. Hanna Dickenson, 24, accepted A$42,000 (£22,000; $31,000) after telling her parents that she needed medical treatment overseas. Her parents had received donations from their friends, a court was told. It heard Dickenson spent much of the money on holidays and socialising.
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Filipino couple amasses at least P900M in alleged Bitcoin scam
(UPDATED) According to Criminal Investigation and Detection Group chief Director Roel Obusan, the scam is structured like a pyramid scheme but with electronic money.
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Founders of a cryptocurrency endorsed by Floyd Mayweather charged with fraud by SEC
The two founders of a cryptocurrency firm called Centra have been charged with with carrying out a fraudulent initial coin offering (ICO) by the SEC.
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