Rio de Janeiro-based Brazilian lawyer Rodrigo Barcelos de Oliveira is under investigation for financial fraud. He spent $2,7 thousand in one of the local shopping centers and said that he was kidnapped and his credit card was taken away, according to MC.Today. The lawyer applied to...
A resident of China's Fujian province lost a whopping 4,3 million yuan (roughly $600) in 000 minutes to an artificial intelligence scammer. The Yahoo! edition told in more detail. The incident reportedly took place on April 10, when the victim, surnamed Guo, received a video call via WeChat…
A former CFO of a Russian gas company has been convicted of making false statements to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), failing to file a Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts Report (FBAR) and willfully failing to file tax returns, according to the US Department of Justice. A federal jury found a Florida citizen guilty...
A 65-year-old Japanese woman was lured out of about $ 27 under the pretext of returning to Earth. According to Japanese media, the scammer pretended to be a Russian cosmonaut on the ISS who could not return home due to funding problems, according to MC.Today. "Cosmonaut" met a woman in ...
A Russian citizen who moved to South Florida after being granted asylum in 2012 has been sentenced to 78 months in prison for a scam that netted more than $2,4 million from more than 1000 U.S. victims, the SunSentinel reports. By…
After a four-day trial on March 4, a federal jury found Ivan Isho, 44, of Peoria, Arizona, guilty of wire fraud, falsely impersonating a federal officer, and stalking, U.S. Attorney Philip A.
In 2018 and 2019, 31-year-old Shimon Khayut tricked several women into giving him hundreds of thousands of dollars under the pseudonym Simon Leviev. The scammer whose scams are the subject of a new Netflix documentary has deleted an Instagram account where he had been posting pictures of his luxurious…
In Hollywood, Michael Romanoff was enthusiastically called the "emperor." However, he received this title from the best people in the American film industry only in the second half of his life, when at the end of 1939 he opened Romanoff's restaurant in Los Angeles (California), which quickly turned into a real Mecca of the creative intelligentsia. More details about the life of Romanoff told ...
On New Year's Eve, the former president of a private medical college in West Palm Beach was arrested. She was detained after the authorities concluded that she had used the school's debit card for personal purchases totaling more than $ 82, writes USA Today. ...
A foreigner was detained in Ukraine, who was wanted by employees of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the US Financial Crimes Investigation Service due to fraud. Ukrayinska Pravda writes about this. “A 32-year-old foreigner is suspected of stealing $6 million from the accounts of American financial institutions. The arrest took place in...