It’s hard to resist a good deal, especially when it comes to durians. And for one woman, her love for the king of fruits cost her quite dearly. The 50-year-old woman, surnamed Xu, came across a couple of Facebook advertisements for a durian promotion marking a kilogram of Musang durian for just…
A 55-year-old financial consultant matched with a con artist impersonating a female investment broker in Singapore on Tinder. He was tricked into investing HK$14 million (Rs 14.85 crore) in cryptocurrency. An Italian man living in Hong Kong was duped of HK$14 million (Rs 14.85 crore) in five weeks after his…
The man was tricked by his online lover into investing in cryptocurrency. An Italian man in Hong Kong was duped out of more than $1.8 million in five weeks after being scammed by his online love interest. According to a South China Morning Post report, the man was tricked by…
Thai Lion Air issued a warning to passengers to be cautious of a ticket scam, after a person lost over 10 million baht by visiting a fraudulent website to claim a free ticket. Trang Police Station posted a warning on its Facebook page of how the victim was grifted 10.2…
Scammers often use romance as a method to dupe unsuspecting Britons out of money.This was the case for Rachel, 50, from Walsall, who joined a dating website on New Year’s Eve 2020, after a divorce in 2018. It was here she met a man claiming to be called ‘Barrio’, a…
The global cryptocurrency sector will soon account for nearly $35 billion worth of transactions worldwide When Bitcoin was born in 2009, the word ‘cryptocurrency’ was hardly typed into a Google Search browser. Fast-forward to 2022, and the vice chair of the Federal Reserve Lael Brainard, has described “serious vulnerabilities” within…
Est. Read Time: 2 mins A Bucks County resident recently fell victim to a scam in which someone pretends to be or to represent a grandchild in trouble, Pennsylvania State Police said over the weekend. According to a news release from the Dublin PSP barracks, the scam was perpetrated on…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — One of the most costly scams reported to the Federal Trade Commission is the romance scam. In the most recent reporting period, the Federal Trade Commission reports romance scams reached a record $304 million in losses, up 50% from the previous year. These scams nearly led…
POLICE in Northern Ireland have issued a warning over romance scams after revealing one woman was conned out of more than £100,000. The PSNI said the victim lost her £112,000 life savings in the ‘devastating’ scam. The woman met the fraudster on a dating app and their relationship developed over…
OGDEN, Utah — A Utah woman thought she was buying and selling cryptocurrency on a reputable website, but that wasn’t the case. It turned out to be an elaborate scam that started when she met who she thought was a match on a dating site. After he gained her trust,…
