Five Individuals Charged in $8 Million Scam Posing as Tech Support, Targeting Elderly in 10 States
ScamRipper Five individuals have been charged with stealing at least $8 million from victims across ten states, including an…
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Pig Butchering Scam: A $75 Billion Global Fraud Targeting Victims Worldwide
Pig butchering, a gruesome term for a widespread and sophisticated scam, has cost victims an estimated $75 billion…
New Bitcoin Scam Targets Oregon Residents Using Publicly Available Home Images
A new scam is sweeping across Oregon, using public images of people’s homes to try and extort thousands…
Leah Loses Nearly $50,000 in Cryptocurrency Scam
A Sacramento County woman, identified only as Leah, fell victim to a cryptocurrency scam that cost her $100,000—her…
Two New York Men Charged in $120,000 Tech Support Scam Targeting Massachusetts Senior
Two New York men have been accused of scamming a Massachusetts senior out of $120,000 using a fake…
Brooklyn Woman Scammed Out of $100,000 in Sophisticated Tech Support Scheme
A Brooklyn woman lost $100,000 in a complex scam involving a frozen computer, an in-person meeting, and a…
Crypto scams swindled $5.6 billion from Americans last year, primarily targeting older individuals
In its first-ever Cryptocurrency Fraud Report, the FBI revealed that individuals aged 60 and older filed over 16,000…
Former CipherTrace VP Catherine Woneis Nearly Loses $100,000 in Account Takeover Scam
Catherine Woneis, the former Vice President of CipherTrace, a MasterCard-owned service that secures crypto transactions, narrowly avoided losing…
Phone Scam Drains $11,000 from Wanda Touard in St. Tammany Parish
For six agonizing hours, 74-year-old Wanda Touard was held emotionally captive by scammers, most likely located on the…
West Suburban Woman Loses Nearly $1 Million in Devastating “Pig Butchering” Scam
A woman from a western suburb of Chicago lost nearly $1 million over several months to a scammer…