Defendant pleads guilty in $65 million scam to coax elderly people into sending cash to short-term rentals

Victims mailed their packages to short-term rentals, which prosecutors say allowed conspirators to quickly relocate and continue the scam at new properties.
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She knew he wasn’t real. She was in love with him anyway. One woman’s story of a romance scam

One rainy afternoon in August, Jean Booth scurried up the stairs of a nondescript Thai restaurant tucked into a strip mall ...
Yahoo

He Lost $753K In A Crypto Scam. A Federal Case May Be His Only Chance To Get Most Of It Back

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image Credit: wral/Instagram. A Fuquay-Varina man who lost more than $753,000 in a cryptocurrency investment scam is waiting to ...
Yahoo

Scam Victims In Six States Lost Money Online. Kentucky Police Got More Than $80,000 Back

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image Credit: FOX 56 News/YouTube. Georgetown police say more than $80,000 has been recovered for scam victims in six states after ...
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HSBC ordered to pay $24.5M penalty for scam protection failures

An Australian federal court ordered HSBC Bank (HSBC) Australia to pay a A$35M (US$24.5M) penalty after it admitted to failures in protecting customers from scams, the Australian Securities and ...
Reuters

HSBC's Australia unit to pay $24.6 million fine over scam protection failures, court rules

June 18 (Reuters) - An Australian court has ordered HSBC's (0005.HK), opens new tab, (HSBA.L), opens new tab local unit to pay A$35 million ($24.61 million) after the bank admitted to failures ‌in ...
PC Magazine

I Tested the Top Scam Protection Tools. These Are the Ones That Actually Work

From AI-powered scam detection to data removal and remote access blocking, here are the best tools to help protect your identity, money, and more. I review privacy tools like hardware security keys, ...
Bloomberg L.P.

HSBC Australia Admits to Scam Failures, to Pay $25 Million Fine

HSBC Holdings Plc’s Australian arm admitted to failures in protecting customers from scams that cost them tens of thousands of dollars and agreed to pay a A$35 million ($25 million) penalty, the ...
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Congress lists 12 scams under BJP, Akhilesh doesn't back; scam showdown splits Vipaksh? Watch

Congress listed 12 scams under BJP after Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav landed in trouble over land purchases in Ujjain. While BJP defended Yadav & put Kharge Rahul on test, Samajwadi Party ...
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This Apple Pay scam could steal from locked iPhones—change one setting now

A simple setting on your iPhone could leave you vulnerable to hackers if you have a specific combination of Apple Pay and Visa credit cards. Jim Wang, going by the TikTok username bestwallethacks, ...
AOL

Florida man accused of a $3.7B Medicare scam was just dragged back to the US by the FBI — here's the threat to millions of taxpayers

A businessman accused of orchestrating one of the largest Medicare frauds in US history is back on American soil. He's said to be one piece of a much larger operation. Ibrahim Khaldoon Hilmi, a ...