A 73-year-old Long Island woman beat a scammer at his own game and tricked him into getting arrested. “Bored grandma — 1, bad guy — 0,” the woman, identified as Jean, said. An unknown caller phoned the grandmother on Thursday morning, telling her that police had arrested her grandson after a car crash, she told…Read More
Trump’s insistence that the 2020 election was rigged against him is a lie that he has been pushing so intensely that it led to the January 6 Capitol riot, and it is a lie that many of his followers are still corroborating today. While there has been little evidence of voter fraud, a few instances…Read More
Banks Have Already Removed Clickable Links In Emails & Texts The prevalence of phishing scams has been in the news lately, with many well-known organisations afflicted by scammers. Being the protectors of people’s hard-earned money, banks are supposed to be more secure than most. Thus, at least 2 Singapore banks – OCBC and DBS –…Read More
Many if not all of us can attest to the pandemic taking a toll on our finances due to being out of work, which led some to attempt fast cash grabs illegally via the now-infamous PPP loan scam. We now know that even celebrities were getting in on the action — Baby Blue of 2000s…Read More
Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photo: Jason Scott Jones/THE CITY It took only a few days before Rachel Ramirez started feeling sick after a nearby co-worker came down with COVID this past fall. Ramirez has lupus, which weakens her immune system, so she sought out a testing site near her Queens apartment that took her insurance. After a…Read More
Ms. James, who is running for re-election this year, argued in the court filing that while her office had compiled substantial evidence that Mr. Trump’s company had engaged in possible fraud, investigators needed to question Mr. Trump in order to determine who was responsible for “the numerous misstatements and omissions made by him or on…Read More
After she was found guilty on Tuesday of four counts of defrauding investors, the downfall of Elizabeth Holmes is complete. Holmes was the former CEO and founder of Theranos, a failed blood-testing startup, founded in 2003. Theranos was supposed to be revolutionary in disease diagnosis. The company promised that with its new technology, it could…Read More
Georgia Republican gubernatorial candidate David Perdue. Jessica McGowan/Getty Images Perdue, who has backed Trump’s debunked election claims, is following the lead of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. Perdue has made election integrity a key part of his intraparty challenge to Gov. Brian Kemp. Georgia Republican gubernatorial candidate David Perdue on Thursday pledged to create a new…Read More
SINGAPORE – It took a man and his wife five years to save about $120,000, but in just 30 minutes, scammers using a fake text message stole the money they had kept in their OCBC Bank joint savings account. The couple in their 20s were among at least 469 people who reportedly fell victim to phishing…Read More
The stepmother of missing seven-year-old Harmony Montgomery has pleaded not guilty to a felony count of welfare fraud after being accused of collecting $1,500 worth of food stamps in the child’s name for a year after her disappearance. Kayla Montgomery, 31, a mother-of-three from Manchester, New Hampshire, was arraigned in Hillsborough County Superior Court on…Read More