A Ghanaian Instagram influencer took part in a fraud scheme which duped vulnerable, elderly Americans out of over $2 million, prosecutors say. Mona Faiz Montrage, 30, has been charged with multiple offenses including wire fraud and money laundering for her role in a series of alleged romance scams, the DOJ…
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Over the last several years, “romance scams” have become much more common, where people will use dating profiles or intimate relationships to try and scam people out of their money. It happens all over the world, but for one Grand Rapids man, he was scamming women…
HAMPTON ROADS, Va. – Right now many seniors feel alone, wanting love and companionship, however too many of them are being victimized by predators online promising a romantic relationship. A local 75-year-old woman said she was told lies by a man she met online, promising. She said she fell victim…
As many as 75 apps on Google Play and 10 on Apple App Store have been discovered engaging in ad fraud as part of an ongoing campaign that commenced in 2019. The latest iteration, dubbed Scylla by Online fraud-prevention firm HUMAN Security, follows similar attack waves in August 2019 and…
The last message BLQ Football Club posted on Twitter on October 12, at 11:54pm, simply read: “I’m Out!” It was accompanied by a peace emoji. There was, however, nothing peaceful about its users in Uganda losing an estimated figure believed to have breached the Shs60 billion mark. Yet one of…
When Jonathan* stumbled across an Instagram account flaunting huge profits from cryptocurrency, he thought he’d struck a gold mine. “I ended up messaging the person, and then she went on this long spiel about Bitcoin mining and how it’s really profitable,” the 23-year-old says. The strategy, he was told, could…
