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<\/a>The US Department of Justice has seized cryptocurrency worth about $112 million from accounts linked to so-called pig butchering investment scams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Judges in Arizona, California and Idaho authorized seizure warrants for six virtual currency accounts that prosecutors say were used to launder proceeds of the various frauds that cost victims millions of dollars after they were socially engineered into investing their savings in dodgy digicash schemes.Read more<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Scam news 2<\/p>\n\n\n\n RICHMOND, Va. (WWBT) – VCU Police say scammers are taking advantage of Taylor Swift fans jumping at any chance to get tour tickets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n They say people are tricking students into sending them Venmo payments and student ID photos and using that to steal their money and identity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For many Taylor Swift fans, a chance to see her on tour this year is a bucket list item. However, tickets are nearly impossible to find.Read more<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Scam news 3<\/p>\n\n\n\n Beware of products claiming to cure cancer on websites or social media platforms, such as Facebook and Instagram. According to Nicole Kornspan, M.P.H., a consumer safety officer at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), they\u2019re rampant these days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAnyone who suffers from cancer, or knows someone who does, understands the fear and desperation that can set in,\u201d says Kornspan. \u201cThere can be a great temptation to jump at anything that appears to offer a chance for a cure.\u201dRead more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Scam news 1 Pig-butchering Finance Scams The US Department of Justice has seized cryptocurrency worth about $112 million from accounts linked to so-called pig butchering investment scams. Judges in Arizona, California and Idaho authorized seizure warrants for six virtual currency accounts that prosecutors say were used to launder proceeds of the various frauds that cost […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awareness","category-scam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2148"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2153,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148\/revisions\/2153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Students Lose Hundreds of Dollars<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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