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. ...
In Ukraine, a foreigner was detained, who was wanted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the US Financial Crime Investigation Service due to fraud. Writes about this "Ukrainian Truth". “A 32-year-old foreigner is suspected of stealing $ 6 million from the accounts of American financial institutions. The detention took place in ...
A Russian citizen was detained at the airport in the Spanish city of Valencia at the request of the United States. He was heading on vacation with his wife and 7-year-old son. This was reported at the Russian Embassy in Madrid, writes RIA Novosti. The incident took place on September 20. The detainee was visited by an officer ...
A resident of the city of Alphareta, Georgia, fell in love with a fraudster and lost 80 thousand dollars. The American, who wished to remain anonymous, met 35-year-old con artist John Martin Hill on Match.com on March 27. On the same day, the couple met and later ...
In the United States, fraudsters have appeared who, posing as agents for immigration and customs control (ICE), threaten with arrest and deportation of migrants and extort money from them, writes Newsweek. The scammers worked according to the following scheme: they called random victims (no preliminary information about them ...