Impersonators of Elon Musk trick victims with phony Tesla and cash offers
Online Scam Alert: Fake Elon Musk Offers A recent incident in Jensen Beach, Florida, highlights an alarming trend of online scams. It all began innocently enough with a Facebook friend request and a message that seemed too good to be true. The victim was repeatedly told it was her lucky day—she’d supposedly won a white […]
Fake documents and phony donations: Credit Suisse penalized for aiding wealthy Americans in concealing over $4 billion from taxes – CNN
Credit Suisse has agreed to plead guilty to US charges related to helping wealthy Americans avoid taxes, coupled with a payment exceeding $510 million. The bank’s services division was sentenced on Monday for colluding to conceal over $4 billion from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) through at least 475 offshore accounts, according to a statement […]
Phony mourner violently robs Harlem funeral home director
According to police, the robber pretending to be in mourning violently attacked the Harlem funeral director. The still-large con man saw the 66-year-old funeral director at his office at Daniels Wilhelmina Funeral Home on February 17th as pretending to arrange a funeral, the NYPD said as he released a video on Wednesday. But he “sought […]
Phony threats temporarily close some Georgia polling sites | FOX 5 News
Multiple polling sites in Fulton County faced phony bomb threats on Election Day. Officials had to evacuate and temporarily close … source
E-ZPass scammers try to cash in on NYC congestion pricing with phony text-message shakedown
The one who falls into this is ez. State transport officials have warned drivers not to be drawn into the round of E-Zpass scams since the MTA's controversial crowd pricing plan hit the Big Apple last month. The scammer sends a text message claiming it is official, citing “unpaid toll bills” and immediately the driver […]
NYC skincare specialist knowingly injected clients with phony Botox from China — leading one woman to experience ‘double vision’: feds
A New York City skin care professional was arrested Wednesday for allegedly injecting a client with fake Botox from China, leaving one woman with “double vision” and heart palpitations, federal authorities said. Joey Grant Luther, 54, a Hell's Kitchen esthetician, allegedly sold counterfeit prescription drugs to customers at her medical spa, JGL Aesthetics, and obtained […]
Phony NYC livery driver drugs woman and attacks her
A creepy man posing as a livery taxi driver drugged and sexually assaulted a woman in the car in a terrifying incident early this week, according to police sources. Officials said the 34-year-old woman got into 55-year-old Umar Randhawa's car on Roosevelt Avenue in Queens around 4:30 a.m. Wednesday, believing him to be a car […]
Phony dentist, 70, busted for practicing out of her LI kitchen, pulling 5 teeth from victim who paid nearly $2K: DA
A 70-year-old Long Island woman turned her kitchen into an illegal dental clinic and pulled out five teeth from trusted patients who paid her nearly $2,000, prosecutors said. Gladys Serrano, 70, was criminally charged this week with running a dental clinic out of a one-bedroom apartment on Greenwich Street in Hempstead, according to the Nassau […]
NJ locals creeped out alleged CEO assassin used their street as phony address, sparking mystery
Residents of a cheerful New Jersey town are stunned to discover that alleged CEO assassin Luigi Mangione had listed their address on the fake ID he used during his escape. It's unclear why Mangione, a 26-year-old tech whiz from Maryland, chose 128 Sherman Place in Maplewood as his fraudulent home, but he has been the […]
Phony basketball-team phone-scammers made off with more than $76K in city-wide crime trend: NYPD
They have a hoop plan. Young scammers trick well-meaning New Yorkers into hijacking their cell phones and transferring thousands of dollars to themselves in what New York City police say is now a citywide crime pattern. It is considered. Man wanted by NYPD in connection with fraud case in Upper WestMay's fullback. DCPI According to […]