They’re putting up fake accounts to bilk the tender-hearted for donations, using the images of a real 5-year-old with real cerebral palsey.
Tag Archives: fraud
Microsoft font gives away forgery in bankruptcy case
In a case that could be straight out of a legal TV drama, a computing font has cost a couple two houses in a Canadian bankruptcy case.
Former rave kingpin back in jail for bizarre bank heist
A former acid house rave kingpin has been sentenced to 20 months for using a bizarre home-built machine to pilfer £500,000 from banking customers.
Those are NOT your grandchildren! FTC warns of new scam
Grandkid imposters are managing to finagle a skyrocketing amount of money out of people, the FTC warns.
The phone went dark, then $1m was sucked out in SIM-swap crypto-heist
A Silicon Valley exec lost $1m in cryptocoin savings when a 21-year-old allegedly SIM-swapped his phone.
iTunes is assigning you a ‘trust score’ based on emails and phone calls
It’s just a number to detect fraud, not a Black Mirror-esque score that’s going to rate us all as social misfits unworthy of wedding invitations.
Street gang members indicted for stealing POS terminals
…and using the credit card terminals to allegedly issue themselves fraudulent returns and to steal taxpayer IDs and bank info.
Serious Fraud Office trialling AI for data-heavy cases
A new tool draws links between people under investigation: emails, who was cc’ed, and those quieter messages where nobody at all was cc’ed.
Romance scam victim allegedly plotted to kill her mother for cash
An identity theft online dating scam led police to uncover texts that detailed the murder-for-hire plot.
Feds indict 12 for allegedly buying iPhones on other people’s dimes
They allegedly hacked into phone accounts, convinced retailers they were who they weren’t, and upgraded to shiny new gadgets for small fees.