A Californian organized hundreds of fictitious marriages in the United States so that immigrants would receive green cards: matchmaking cost from $20

A California man has pleaded guilty to running a massive marriage fraud agency that arranged hundreds of sham marriages to circumvent immigration laws. This included obtaining green cards under the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA),…

Cheating through friendliness: new travel scams that are easy to fall for

How often have you booked a hotel and then been disappointed because what you saw in the picture is completely untrue in reality. Now this is one of the most common types of fraud. What other popular types of fraud are there, how to act in such a situation ...

What got the most famous American scammers who deceived millionaires and the US government

Exactly 95 years ago, in July 1928, the last chapters of the newly written novel The Twelve Chairs were published in the literary magazine Thirty Days, which can be considered the birth of Ostap Bender, a favorite of several generations of readers. Some of the…

Florida woman swindles Holocaust survivor out of $2,8 million

Florida resident Peaches Stergo has been sentenced to 51 months in prison by the Southern District of New York for her years-long scheme to deceive an 87-year-old Holocaust survivor. The scammer defrauded the victim of $ 2,8 million. At least from May 2017 until about October ...

Alabama resident staged her kidnapping: because of her, a lot of police were roused to their feet and they collected thousands of dollars from those who wanted to help

Carly Russell, an Alabama woman who went missing earlier this month, has admitted to police that she was not kidnapped, Yahoo reports. Russell received her bachelor's degree in psychology from Auburn University in Montgomery and attended nursing courses at Jefferson State Community College.…

Personal experience: how scammers try to steal your data using Amazon

The holiday shopping season is in full swing, and the number of scammers is also on the rise. Most of us buy gifts through Amazon. How to spot a very dangerous Amazon shopping scam, according to TechRadar. It is this festive mixture of frantic shopping, excitement and slight fear that ...

You can pay 400 times more for the Internet than your neighbor, but its speed and quality will not be better

Depending on where you live, the Internet that AT&T offers you may be faster or slower, but you pay the same price for it, according to TheMarkup. For example, two households with different internet speeds are only a few blocks apart in Kansas City, State…

Extraterrestrial scam: a scammer disguised as an astronaut defrauded a woman of $ 30 to 'return home from orbit'

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 ...

Florida authorities hand out fake welfare pamphlets to immigrants

According to the class-action lawsuit, Florida officials and agencies used several tactics to lure migrants on a charter flight to Martha's Vineyard, including producing a fake pamphlet claiming refugee benefits, Insider reports. On two chartered planes from Texas to…

Twin sisters cheated border control dozens of times and flew to other countries using each other's documents

A pair of twin sisters in China changed their passports and IDs more than 30 times to travel abroad before they were caught, Insider reports. The Zhou sisters, from the northern Chinese city of Harbin, have been arrested and are currently under investigation. All…

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