According to recent data from Action Fraud, £92 million has been lost through online dating scams in the last year alone. Coming up to Valentine’s Day, this is a very popular time of year for dating websites and apps, making it a particularly rife time for romance scams. Holly Andrews,…
An Ontario man says he will probably have to sell his house after being scammed out $106,000 of his retirement money. Sylvester, who did not want to provide his surname, said he is devastated and left completely lost after realizing he had been conned out of his life savings. “I…
Hackread.com has adopted a strategic partnership with Verify Token to help educate investors to make crypto safer for all. As world economies reel from the unprecedented disruption of a modern global pandemic and as the world’s population learns to adapt; there lurks behind the scenes a pandemic that threatens to…
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Cocaine and human trafficking have traditionally been the crime of choice for transnational criminal organizations. However, cryptocurrency scams and forex trading scams have become new hyper-growth industries. It yielded over $14 billion in 2021 – that is near twice the $7.8 billion reported in 2020. Earlier this year, I reported…
RALEIGH, N.C. – A Smyrna, Georgia man was arrested and had his first appearance in federal court in Atlanta today on charges of laundering the proceeds of romance scams that targeted victims in the Eastern District of North Carolina and throughout the United States. According to court documents, Oluwadamilare Kolaogunbule,…
New York, NY, Jan. 17, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Coinrealcap is a crypto tracking portal that simplifies data to make it easier for users to make informed decisions. Coinrealcap scans for contract security so that users can easily determine whether a project is too good to be true or not….
As dating apps experience a boom amid COVID-19, losses to romance scams soar too More and more people have been flocking to online dating platforms in search of romance and companionship in the wake of lockdowns and social distancing mandates, but the new reality is also creating conditions that contribute…
A new report has recommended that the U.S. government should step up its oversight over digital currency ATMs to curb their alleged rising usage in drug and human trafficking activities. The report by a U.S Congress-linked agency blamed the lax regulations for ATM operators, stating they make it convenient for…
Police are suspicious about an 18-year-old’s story about how he was shot last Wednesday evening in Ann Arbor. This story begins in Toledo, Ohio on Wednesday, January 12th. That’s when an 18-year-old Toldeo man was picked up by a Michigan woman he met on Tinder. He told police that his…
