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HK$75m Hong Kong bitcoin investment scam
March 6th, 2015
Police arrest five Hongkongers after more than 50 clients claim they were unable to withdraw funds from investment accounts Police are searching for the directors and shareholders of an investment company after more than 50 clients of a Hong ...
2G scam: Trial begins, court records statement of ED officer in PMLA case
November 17th, 2014
The trial in a 2G scam related money laundering case involving former Telecom Minster A Raja, DMK MP Kanimozhi and others today commenced before a special court which recorded statement of prosecution witness Himanshu Kumar Lal, Joint Director of Enforcement Directorate (ED). Lal, who is also the ...
Purse.io Immune to Brawker Amazon Wishlist Scam;”What Happens Under the Hood Actually Matters”
November 17th, 2014
Following recent coverage of a potential exploit on services that rely on Amazon Wishlist for order fulfillment, Purse.io, a Bitcoin service that allows users to “buy” goods on Amazon using Bitcoin at a heavily discounted price, has clarified that ...
SEC and FINRA Warn Investors About Penny Stock Scams
October 31st, 2014
The Securities and Exchange Commission’s Office of Investor Education and Advocacy and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) issued an alert warning investors that some penny stocks being aggressively promoted as great investment opportunities may in fact be stocks ...
FMA warns consumers about cold-calling investment offers and ‘big win’ scams
October 23rd, 2014
The Financial Markets Authority (FMA) is warning New Zealand consumers and investors to be wary of cold-calls asking them to buy shares or put their money into offshore firms. The FMA is receiving an increasing number of complaints about ...
Millions stolen from UAE bank customers in ATM scam
October 23rd, 2014
A gang of Eastern Europeans has been arrested by police in Dubai on suspicion of stealing millions of dirhams from ATM customers in the UAE. According to 7Days newspaper police arrested the gang after uncovering their elaborate scam that ...
Scammers posing as IRS agents extort $5 million
September 4th, 2014
Callers posing as Internal Revenue Service (IRS) agents have stolen $80,000 from Arizona residents since January in a nationwide scam that continues to grow both in volume and in threat. Federal authorities said Wednesday that as many as 1,100 ...
SRA scam warnings
August 29th, 2014
Birketts has been exposed by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) as the subject of a scam after members of the public received emails purportedly from the UK Border Agency advising them to send money to the firm as well ...
Ex-MIT Professor, Son to Plead Guilty in Hedge Fund Scam
August 13th, 2014
A former Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor and his son agreed to plead guilty to running a $500 million hedge-fund scam that was uncovered by investigators probing Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme. Gabriel Bitran, who was a professor and associate ...
Gibraltar lawyers jailed over £40m client money scam
July 9th, 2014
Three brothers who ran one of Gibraltar’s largest law firms were jailed last week for fraud, four years after their firm, Marrache & Co, was put into liquidation. Benjamin, Isaac and Solomon Marrache were found guilty of fraud last ...
