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Man jailed after using gadget in his car in London to message victims without being stopped by mobile networkA portable phone mast that blitzes every nearby mobile phone with credible-looking scam text messages is the latest weapon being used by frauds…
The variations seem to be endless. Here’s a fake ghostwriting scam that seems to be making boatloads of money.
This is a big story about scams being run from Texas and Pakistan estimated to run into tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars, viciously defrauding Americans with false hopes of publishing bestseller books (a scam you’d not think many people would fall for but is surprisingly huge). In January, three people were charged with defrauding elderly authors across the United States of almost $44 million by “convincing the victims that publishers and filmmakers wanted to turn their books into blockbusters.”…
Nearly half of of mobile users encounter mobile scams daily, with people in the US and UK more likely to be targeted than those in other regions, according to Malwarebytes. Most users say it’s hard to tell a scam from something real, and very few feel …
Geelong woman lured by bogus ads for a boutique that didn’t exist says PayPal must do more to help scam victimsOnline “ghost stores” falsely claiming to be Australian businesses are providing fake tracking numbers to convince payment platforms they hav…
MPs on Treasury committee hear that those affected were being contacted and would face ‘no financial loss’HM Revenue & Customs has lost £47m after a phishing scam breached tens of thousands of tax accounts, a group of MPs has heard.Two senior civil…
Interactive Brokers is warning customers to be on high alert due to a wave of scams involving fraudsters posing as company representatives. Interactive Brokers (IBKR) is a global brokerage firm that lets investors trade stocks, options, futures, and ot…
Data reveals ‘notable increase’ in scammers tricking people into sending money abroadUK banks and payment firms have been urged to strengthen their anti-fraud systems for international payments after a rise in scammers tricking people into sending mone…
Banks say every day 7,000 incidents take place where scammers get people to disclose unique set of numbers Banks are reporting a surge in a type of fraud where customers are tricked into disclosing online login passcodes they are sent, which has helped…
Social media users are being tricked by false ads advertising fictitious sales – and consumers say the platforms must take actionGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAustralian consumers are being lured to fake websites imitating …
A DoorDash driver stole over $2.5 million over several months:
The driver, Sayee Chaitainya Reddy Devagiri, placed expensive orders from a fraudulent customer account in the DoorDash app. Then, using DoorDash employee credentials, he manually assigned the orders to driver accounts he and the others involved had created. Devagiri would then mark the undelivered orders as complete and prompt DoorDash’s system to pay the driver accounts. Then he’d switch those same orders back to “in process” and do it all over again. Doing this “took less than five minutes, and was repeated hundreds of times for many of the orders,” writes the US Attorney’s Office…