A retired New Jersey corrections lieutenant orchestrated a heartless cryptocurrency scheme that preyed on his peers, costing participating police, firefighters, EMTs, and other first responders more than $620,000, state and federal authorities said. John DeSalvo, 47, of Linwood, also pulled a $100,000 investment scam that authorities said went to covering his credit card bills, day…Read More
This blackly comic drama follows a woman’s discovery that her missing spouse – who popped out for chow mein and never came back – is a conman. Her quest for revenge is a total thrill Vince Gilligan, the creator of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, centred his best-known shows around distinctly unlikable protagonists. One…Read More
A Long Island nurse who raked in $1.5 million selling fake vaccine cards during the COVID-19 pandemic pleaded guilty on Friday to forgery and money laundering. Julie DeVuono, 51, is expected to avoid jail, but must forfeit $1.2 million in criminal proceeds, do 840 hours of community service, surrender her license to practice, and shut…Read More
“Oh my God, they’re still moving the money.” The bank teller was shocked when pensioner Lyn Read walked into her local Bendigo Bank branch one afternoon in January to tell her she was in the middle of scam, and the bank’s employee acted quickly. “She shut it all down and said, ‘I’ll ring our fraud squad…Read More
An Australian great-grandmother has lost her entire life savings in a cruel online phishing scam. Marie Marshall, 66, was left with just $4 in her wallet after a scammer posing as a Commonwealth Bank employee convinced her to transfer $21,000 into a new account to “keep it safe”. The man contacted Geelong widow Marshall back…Read More
The Thodex founder fled the country in 2021 only to be detained in Albania in August 2022 and extradited to Türkiye in April 2023. The former CEO of Turkish crypto exchange Thodex, Faruk Fatih Özer, was sentenced to 11,196 years in prison by a Turkish court on charges of “establishing, managing and being a member…Read More
Detectives from Cairns Criminal Investigation Branch (CIB) are appealing to the public for assistance, after charging three people in relation to an alleged romance scam. It will be alleged between June 2022 and February 2023, three men were allegedly defrauded of almost half a million dollars. Two men in their 70s allegedly responded to a…Read More
Supermarkets were today accused of a loyalty scheme scam designed to make savings look bigger than they really are. Tesco and Sainsbury’s appear to be increasing the ‘regular’ price on household essentials before then offering what look like big reductions for those using loyalty cards. Evidence uncovered by Which? covers a wide range of products…Read More
Reva Stewart preparing to meet people without housing at a park in Phoenix Alice Fordham/KUNM hide caption Reva Stewart preparing to meet people without housing at a park in Phoenix The heat is just breaking after a sweltering day in Phoenix. In a small patch of green amid the concrete, Madison Park, unhoused people are…Read More
Age-gap romances are not uncommon these days, but sometimes they still cause a stir and a raised eyebrow, with some naysayers questioning whether there’s a motive behind the loved-up display. But a couple with a 44-year age gap are proving that age really is just a number, sharing that: “This is love, not a money…Read More