KUALA LUMPUR: Police have detained 1,160 individuals for suspected involvement in call centre scam syndicates in the first nine months of this year. They comprise 791 individuals from Malaysia, China (300), Indonesia (20), Taiwan (13), Bangladesh (eight), Vietnam (six), Pakistan (four), Thailand (three), Singapore (three), the Philippines (two) and India…
First XV rugby: My strange year inside Auckland schoolboy rugby’s media ban | #datingscams | #lovescams | #facebookscams
Saint Kentigern College v Sacred Heart College. First XV Schools Rugby Union 1A Final. Auckland, New Zealand. Saturday 19 August 2023 © Photo credit: Andrew Cornaga / www.photosport.nz Bruce Holloway and Adam Julian The First XV season is over and the rugby goalposts have been taken down – but Auckland’s…
Ayleen Charlotte (Tinder Swindler Victim) and AA419 Honored as Scam Fighters of the Year 2023 | #lovescams | #datingapps
The Global Anti-Scam Alliance has awarded the Scam Fighter awards of 2023. Ayleen Charlotte, Scamming the Scammer Ayleen Charlotte, Scamming the Scammer AMSTERDAM, Feb. 02, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Ayleen Charlotte, scam victim of the Tinder Swindler, was honored as ‘Scam Fighter Person of the Year’ 2023. AA419, which has been fighting…
The Crazy Year of Scams | #lovescams | #datingapps
It was seven years ago in the weekly update with the Data Science team. As Chief Cyber Officer and co-founder of behavioral biometrics company BioCatch, which specializes in online fraud detection, this was my favorite internal meeting: there were always some new tricks the fraudsters did which the team…
11,367 cybercrime cases reported from January to July this year: Police | #lovescams | #datingapps
KUALA LUMPUR: A total of 11,367 cases of cybercrime were reported from January to July this year compared to 18,510 cases of commercial crime in the same period, said Commercial Crime Investigation Department (CCID) deputy director (cybercrimes and multimedia) Senior Assistant Commissioner Victor Sanjos. He said the trend of cybercrimes…
The price of love is costing Aussies $43 billion a year on dating apps | #lovescams | #datingapps
New research from ING reveals single Australians are spending $384 a month and $42.8 billion a year in pursuit of romance. This is nearly quadruple the $11.7 billion spent in 2017. The survey conducted by YouGov which was comprised of 1,040 Australians aged 18 years and older, and revealed Aussies…
$22 million lost to romance scams in B.C.’s Lower Mainland this year, police say | #lovescams | #datingapps
Vancouver – Victims of online romance scams have collectively lost a staggering $22 million in B.C.’s Lower Mainland since the start of the year, according to police. More than $1.3 million was taken from 29 victims in Surrey alone from January through August, according to the RCMP, with…
Year 2021 leaves us with trauma of pandemic, hatred, division; and a longing for peaceful past takes over | #lovescams | #datingapps
Let’s come back to the present realities. With that, all that I can say: We were better off in those years passed by…when verse and sentiments held sway, with carefree abundance holding out. There was less of violence, hate and divisions and more of togetherness and free flow of the…