College football families scammed by phone call saying players were in jail
Unsportsmanlike behavior. Recently, four families of college football players were targeted in a scam that convinced them their sons were in jail and needed to post bail. When scammers called the families of four players from the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff and asked them to post about $1,000 in bail, three of them […]
How a Massachusetts family scammed the lottery out of $20 million
A Massachusetts father and two sons used a secret network of convenience stores and tax-averse scratch-off winners to swindle more than $20 million from lottery tickets, authorities said. Ali Jaafar, 63, of Watertown, tried to pass off his winning streak as luck, but the Lottery Commission says it has opened an investigation into the “factually […]
Model who scammed mom out of $150M dies in fall
The source of all fraud? A Brazilian model accused of defrauding her mother of nearly $150 million in an elaborate psychic scheme has died in a mysterious fall. She was 49 years old. Sabine Bogich fell from the fifth floor of a building in Rio de Janeiro on September 14th. Jam Press report. Police investigating […]
Milwaukee man allowed a boy to borrow his cellphone to text his mother — and was scammed out of $5,000
A 27-year-old man said he was scammed out of $5,000 after giving his cell phone to a boy who asked if he could text his mother. Anyon Rettinger told WISN-TV He was working on his car in his driveway in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, when a young boy approached him on a Lime scooter and asked for […]
US arrests 2 men in separate telemarketing schemes that scammed people out of tens of millions of dollars
Two men were arrested Thursday in Nevada and Wisconsin on charges of separately conducting a telemarketing scam that defrauded people across the United States of tens of millions of dollars. Richard Zeitlin, 53, of Las Vegas, and Robert Piero, 73, of Fredonia, Wisconsin, were indicted in Manhattan federal court. U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said the […]
I got scammed by this UPS fake check scheme
Unfortunately, if you receive an unexpected check in a UPS envelope, it’s a scam. Like many Americans today, I was targeted by online scammers who hacked into my UPS account. A scammer hacked my girlfriend’s UPS account, charged tens of thousands of dollars in overnight shipping, and sent me envelopes from various fake companies, each […]
Newly divorced mom scammed of entire $100,000 401k savings
A recently divorced woman was robbed of all her 401(k) savings by a scammer she met on Tinder and was encouraged to invest in cryptocurrency. It’s the latest “pig butchering” scheme targeting lonely people. Rebecca Holloway, 42, a mother of three, said she was scammed out of $100,000 by a scammer claiming to be a […]
Woman scammed out of $450K in ‘pig butchering’ scheme using fake cryptocurrency app
A Philadelphia tech executive has become the latest victim of an online romance scam known as “Butchering the Pig.” The woman reportedly lost more than $450,000 in a cryptocurrency investment scheme. new york post. “Swine butchering” is described as follows: mashable As a “cryptocurrency investment scam”, as well as other love schemes. “Perpetrators of pig […]
I was a victim of ‘pig butchering’ — I got scammed out of $450K
Put Tinder Swindler aside. Introducing the latest Hinge Cringe. A 37-year-old tech executive from Philadelphia claims he fell for an “online romance scam.” “Butchering Pigs” — She said a cryptocurrency investment scheme drained more than $450,000 from her bank account. In the wake of the loss, Shreya Dutta rented a cheap apartment, sold a car […]
Confessions from a victim scammed by cyber creeps
It reads like a novel confessing to fraud perpetrated by cybercreeps. Click to get Kurt’s free CYBERGUY newsletter with quick tips, tech reviews, security alerts, and easy how-tos to make you smarter You can learn a lot from Margaret, this brave gal from Watertown, Massachusetts. He shares and writes about his experience of being tricked […]
