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 ...
Fraudster Juan Zedillo promised undocumented immigrants in Yonkers, New York, a faster process to U.S. citizenship, saying he had deep connections to federal agencies that would help expedite their application. He even had a business card of a famous group - United States Counter...
Jordan Belfort, 54, immortalized in the 2013 film The Wolf of Wall Street, is back to normal after serving 22 months in prison for fraud. In the famous film, his character is played by Leonardo DiCaprio. In the late 80s, the "Wolf of Wall Street" Jordan Belfort rose to prominence in trading...
A Russian talk show on Channel One features a man who is introduced as "the US journalist Greg Weiner." But he turned out to be not a journalist, but a Russian-speaking businessman named Grigory Vinnikov. Moreover, a businessman with a bad reputation: he disappeared from New York 5 years ago, along with the money of many clients who consider him a fraud. Meduza tried to figure it out ...
A Wisconsin scammer who tried to scam people out of money by posing as an IRS agent and threatening to arrest them targeted the wrong victim: police officer Kyle Roeder, who specializes in phone scams. But the policeman did not give himself away to the scammer, but called him back and...
Russian citizen Vadim Polyakov, who is on trial in the United States on charges of hacking user accounts, pleaded guilty to complicity in theft and laundering of illegally obtained funds. A 32-year-old resident of Russian St. Petersburg admitted to judges that he was part of a global network of hackers and “fished out”...
Details of the detention of 23-year-old Ukrainian Arthur Samarin, who pretended to be a senior student at Harrisburg High School, Asher Potts, have become known. Samarin-Potts was arrested last week for forging documents and embezzling someone else's identity. On Wednesday, the Potts family, who sheltered ...
Maxim Grinberg, a native of Ukraine and the owner of two optics stores in Brooklyn, is accused of fraud in obtaining loans. He spent the money received from the fraudulent scheme on expensive restaurants, casinos and gifts for his mistress. In the materials of the Brooklyn prosecutor's office it is said that Greenberg with his ...