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Swindlers have persuaded Norwegians into buying gold and leaving it in the forest as part of a growing investment fraud, according to the country’s banking lobby.
Authorities in Thailand have uncovered an audacious scheme involving hundreds of metres of internet cable sent over the Thai border to keep a suspected Myanmar scam compound online, after finding two ramshackle village homes using enough daily bandwidth to power an entire village. Officers raided the homes in Nong Lu, a Thai border village in Kanchanaburi province, which is the gateway to the Three Pagodas Pass in Myanmar – now a notorious hub for cyber scammers. Many scam centre leaders have...
In a reply during Question Hour, Dairy Development and Animal Husbandry Minister says all files related to purported scam have been handed over to Vigilance
Tokyo, Oct. 13 (Jiji Press)--Japanese police said Tuesday that they have arrested a 34-year-old Vietnamese woman on suspicion of money laundering in voice phishing cases. According to the National Police Agency, Nguyen Thi Huaon has been charged with violating the organized crime punishment law. Huaon is suspected of laundering 30 million yen stolen through voice phishing in March 2025. ...
The case raises questions about how banking credentials were compromised and whether personal information associated with electoral applications was obtained through phishing or other means
The ED officials taken the duo into custody on Wednesday based on the alleged revelations made by IAS officer Gyanendra Kumar Gangwar, an accused, and Basavaraj Kannale, another accused.
Hong Kong police have arrested 17 more people linked to a suspected “crash-for-cash” scam syndicate as authorities investigate 669 suspicious claims totalling more than HK$137 million (US$17.4 million). Among those arrested was an insurance claimant accused of filing 12 compensation claims worth more than HK$3 million. Officers from the commercial crime bureau arrested the 17 claimants aged 27 to 49 between September 9 and October 7 on suspicion of fraud, bringing the total number of people...
The partner of a private construction company based at Naganallur in Chennai has approached the court to prevent the DVAC from registering a FIR on the basis of ED’s two-year-old dossier.
A Dominican court in Santiago must now decide whether 13 people and five companies face trial over phone scams that cost older Americans about US$5 million. The post Dominican Republic Charges 13 Over US Grandparent Scam appeared first on The Rio Times.
The main accused, Pradeep Kumar Jadhav, who works as Purchase Officer at Manmul, had allegedly connived with Shivakumar, the former Chairman and present Director of Manmul, to divert skimmed milk powder and sell it to private individuals.
A 60-year-old Hong Kong woman has lost more than HK$21 million (US$2.7 million) in a cryptocurrency scam after a fraudster posing as an investment expert she met online duped her. The clerk reported the case to police on Saturday, saying she had befriended an individual claiming to be an investment specialist on “Baby Kingdom”, a popular online parenting forum and community website, on March 15 this year, a source said. The fraudster duped her into investing on a fake cryptocurrency platform...
The police say the ED will be intimated about the cases as the accused have received money in bank accounts abroad for services promised or delivered in India