There are more scammers in Ukraine: the number of cases has broken a 12-year record
On average, 8 thousand cases are opened per month this year. A record number of fraud cases have been opened in Ukraine / photo In the first…
Fraudsters who sold fake AirPods were exposed in Lviv – they face from 5 to 12 years with confiscation
Lviv law enforcement officers (police and prosecutor’s office employees) exposed an organized criminal group of three young people. They sold fake headphones of “one of the world’s…
Sam Bankman-Fried’s parents say he is ‘too naïve’ for prison and plead with judge to commute sentence
Relatives of the ex-owner of the bankrupt FTX crypto exchange begged the judge to reduce the sentence, arguing that Sam’s naivety could put him in “extreme danger”…
The company’s CFO deepfake ordered the employee to pay $25 million to fraudsters
The Technology section is powered by Favbet Tech According to Hong Kong police, fraudsters forced a financial officer of a multinational corporation to pay $25 million using…
the pastor sold his own cryptocurrency to believers and “earned” $1.3 million
A Colorado online church pastor accused of embezzling $1.3 million by selling worshipers worthless cryptocurrency has told his subscribers in a video statement that God told him…
The Mykolaiv hacker infected 1 million servers with a miner virus and “swindled” $2 million of crypto. Europol helped catch him
The Technology section is powered by Favbet Tech It has been a long time since there has been any interesting news on the topic of hidden cryptocurrency…
The fake CEO of the HyperVerse crypto fund was found – the fictional person was played by an actor for €4,700
We recently wrote about the head of the bankrupt HyperVerse, Stephen Rhys Lewis, who probably never really existed. And so the American YouTuber Jack Gamble and The…
CEO of bankrupt cryptocurrency fund HyperVerse never existed – The Guardian
For several years, there has been a legend circulating on social networks that Stephen Rhys Lewis, the head of the recently bankrupt cryptocurrency fund HyperVerse, is a…
Apple settles iTunes gift card fraud lawsuit – victims likely to lose ‘hundreds of millions of dollars’
According to the lawsuit, the company knowingly allowed fraudsters to use its gift cards while keeping a 30% commission on the stolen money. Scammers contacted victims over…
Ukrainian refugees are victims of a sophisticated visa scam in the UK
The number of cases of such fraud is growing daily. Britain is becoming less hospitable to Ukrainians / photo REUTERS Ukrainian refugees in the UK are becoming…
“Nova Poshta” denied information about promotions and raffles in exchange for registration
Recently, in some Telegram and Viber channels, as well as in social networks, various announcements about promotions and raffles, allegedly held by well-known companies, began to spread….
Nanny lawyer for Elon Musk – the court rejected the billionaire’s appeal, and he is still prohibited from writing anything on Twitter about Tesla
Elon Musk has lost another bid to overturn a 2018 deal with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to vet some of his tweets about Tesla…
Last year, the Apple App Store prevented fraudulent transactions worth $2 billion – 1.7 million applications were rejected, hundreds of thousands of developers were banned
Apple’s App Store prevented more than $2 billion in fraudulent transactions last year, the company said in a press release. In 2022, Apple rejected nearly 1.7 million…
Thousands of Infected WordPress Sites Redirect Users to Pages Driving Google Ads – Data from Sucuri
If you’ve ever been redirected to a strange Q&A website that appears to be promoting cryptocurrency or other blockchain technologies, it could be part of an ad…
In the USA, the founder of the Bitzlato exchange – Russian Anatoliy Legkodymov – was arrested for processing illegal $700 million
Anatoly Legkodymov is the main shareholder and co-founder of the Hong Kong-registered virtual currency exchange Bitzlato. He (a citizen of Russia living in China) is accused of…
He disguised himself as a gathering for the Armed Forces: a fraudster is wanted in Odesa
More than 60 cartridges suitable for firing from a Kalashnikov assault rifle and a hand machine gun were also found in the suspect’s car. In Odesa, they…
Sam Bankman-Fried has pleaded not guilty to fraud. The ex-head of FTX will appear before the court in October 2023
Bankman-Fried, who is charged with eight different counts, including wire fraud and illegal campaign finance, has pleaded not guilty. We help When the ex-director of the bankrupt…
The FBI recommends using ad blockers in browsers to protect against scammers
Ad blocking is one of the most controversial aspects of web browsing. Users are happy to see pages without unnecessary elements, but by using blocking programs, sites…
Facebook spreads fake messages about “winter” aid from the EU – 13,280 hryvnias for every Ukrainian
Fake messages on social networks are spread by fraudsters – this is how administrators try to increase the reach of communities. Specialists of the Voxcheck fact-checking project…
“Your card is blocked” – the Cyber Police reminded about the online service for complaints about telephone scammers
In recent days, complaints about the actions of phone fraudsters who pretend to be bank employees and try to gain access to the bank accounts of Ukrainians…
Bankman-Fried’s ex-girlfriend and director of the FTX subsidiary pleaded guilty to fraud and faces up to 110 years in prison.
The co-founder of FTX pleaded guilty and is sentenced to 50 years in prison. Two top FTX executives have pleaded guilty and are cooperating with prosecutors: FTX…
Tesla commented on the lawsuit over Full Self-Driving: “Failure to realize a long-term goal is not fraud”
Since 2016, Tesla has said that its future electric cars will have the necessary equipment for autonomous driving. However, the company has not yet fulfilled its promise,…
The founder of the medical startup Theranos, Elizabeth Holmes, was sentenced to 11 years in prison
The co-founder and CEO of the medical startup Theranos deceived 10 investors and defrauded them of about $121 million. Elizabeth Holmes was sentenced to 135 months, or…
Gucci Master goes to jail. Nigerian billionaire and popular Instagram blogger sentenced to 11 years for fraud
Nigerian billionaire Ramon Abbas, dubbed the “Gucci Master” for his love of branded clothing, has been sentenced to 11 years in prison for participating in fraudulent schemes…
PrivatBank warned of another fraudulent scheme – this time with aid payments from international organizations (UN, EU and even NATO)
PrivatBank warned Ukrainians about a new ( old ) fraudulent scheme of mass extortion of personal data – under the pretext of financial assistance from international organizations,…