A British businessman, who was a former contractor for South Africa’s ailing power utility Eskom, has been extradited from the UK to face charges of corruption and fraud. Michael Lomas is accused of taking kickbacks […]
A woman has been accused of trying to auction off Elvis Presley’s former home Graceland and defraud the singer’s family out of millions of dollars. Lisa Jeanine Findley, 53, was arrested and charged with mail […]
A school worker has been jailed for nine years after stealing $1.5m (£1.18m) worth of chicken wings. Vera Liddell’s year-long heist of the flightless birds soared to 11,000 cases of the wings, which were meant […]
A US court has convicted a Mozambican former finance minister over a 10-year-old conspiracy that triggered the worst economic crisis in his home country since independence. Manuel Chang was found guilty of accepting pay-offs through […]
Anti-piracy group FACT assisted UK police to deliver cease-and-desist notices to 40 alleged pirate ‘IPTV operators’. The ‘crackdown’ further resulted in three arrests in Nottingham, Widnes, and Stockton-on-Tees in recent weeks. Meanwhile, Sky reportedly removed […]
Instagram owner Meta says it has removed thousands of accounts in Nigeria that were trying to target people in sextortion schemes. Such scammers typically pose as young women online to trick people into sending sexually […]
Ticketmaster customers in North America have been sent emails warning them to take action after the company was hacked in May. Emails were sent overnight to Canadian customers, urging them to “be vigilant and take steps to […]
Boeing is to plead guilty to a criminal fraud conspiracy charge to resolve a US investigation into two fatal 737 MAX crashes. An official at the US Department of Justice (DoJ) revealed overnight that Boeing would pay […]
Fraud groups take billions of dollars a year out of the music industry through fake streams, a streaming technology company has warned. At least 10% of all song streams are fraudulent, and this takes between […]
A $5m (£4m) reward is being offered in the hunt for the fugitive “Cryptoqueen” Ruja Ignatova. Bulgarian-born Ignatova, who has German citizenship, has been on the FBI most-wanted list since 2022 for fraud and money […]
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