A revived email scam in the form of a fake PayPal invoice for a Google Pixel phone is making the rounds, and email users are warned to immediately report and delete it. “Online scammers are always on the lookout for new and innovative ways to trick people into giving them their personal and financial information,”…Read More
A World Economic Forum insider has been caught boasting that the Silicon Valley Bank crash was an orchestrated plot that went to plan perfectly – and the crash will have a domino effect on the banking industry, leading to a global financial meltdown. It’s been a crazy few days for the banking industry. Specifically, for…Read More
RALEIGH, N.C. — A scammer used fear and intimidation to steal thousands of dollars from an 84-year-old North Carolina woman. She says she gave up her savings to “help the government,” and now she’s using her voice to help you. “The whole time I kept telling him, ‘I know you’re scamming me. I know you’re…Read More
An inmate said to be on death row at the Ibara Correctional Centre in Ogun State, Femi Oso, has been accused of using a romance scam to defraud a yet-to-be-identified lady of N17m in the state. PUNCH Metro gathered that Oso and the victim got connected on Facebook and after chatting with each other for…Read More
Welcome to Skeptical Tuesday, where we take a good, hard look at the ridiculous things that we encounter in our daily lives. Today’s topic is the infamous “Chef de garage” – a title that sounds like it was plucked straight from a French cookbook, but is really just a fancy way of saying “lazy, money-grubbing…Read More
Attendees at a school board meeting in Florida erupted in applause earlier this week after a long-serving principal, who fell for an internet scam that nearly cost the school $100,000, announced that she would resign. Jan McGee had served as the principal of Burns Science and Technology Charter School since it opened about 12 years…Read More
A Federal High Court sitting in Kuje, has sentenced one Aiosa Kelvin Orhue alias Fredrick Leonard to prison for engaging in love scam. The EFCC Abuja Zonal Command, arraigned Orhue before Justice C.E. Nwecheonwu and he was convicted for defrauding a woman named Cheryldene Cook of over N104 million (One Hundred And Four Million Naira)….Read More
U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., listens to the State of the Union address on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023. (Video screenshot) Conservative reaction is now pouring in after Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said it was a “mistake” for Fox News to allow Tucker Carlson to use the newly released Jan. 6 tapes to depict the…Read More
Losing money to an internet-based has long since moved beyond an uncommon scenario reserved for vulnerable people who fall into not-so-sophisticated traps. Scammers are constantly evolving as new technology develops with more highly educated Australians falling for their tricks. A variation of the multi-million-dollar “wrong number” text scam has been sweeping the US, with scammers…Read More