Today’s Fraud News from around the world:
Cruel lottery as banks play blame game over push-payment fraud: Only when the plumber chased her for payment did she discover that the money had been paid to a fraudster. “We found out that the scammer had …: Google Alert – fraudsters
How to smell catfish before you fall victim to an online romcon: After Thomas received a message request from someone on social media, he thought she was “beautiful, funny and kind”, and they spoke every day …: Google Alert – fraudsters
Coronavirus scammers exploiting fear by sending fake NHS emails to vulnerable Brits: He remembered a scam I had warned about last year, with fraudsters telling pensioners they needed to advance order medication because Brexit …: Google Alert – fraudsters
Experts: A strange random call could be cybercrime attempt: Calling the fraudster would activate the exorbitant charges which then generates cash to the fraudsters. The best way to deal with such, according to …: Google Alert – fraudsters
Cops warn against mobile apps offering remote support: Kailash Deshmane, the in-charge of the cyber cell at the Aurangabad police commissionerate, on Thursday said that such apps are used by fraudsters …: Google Alert – fraudsters
Pune: Gift lure from virtual pal costs techie Rs 17.74 lakh: The fraudster had sent the woman a friend request on a video- and photograph-sharing social networking site in July last year and she accepted it.: Google Alert – fraudsters
Quarter of Britons 'targeted by phone fraudsters more than once a week': Consumer group Which? says increasing numbers of fraudsters are using the “cheap” technology to exploit people over the phone and plunder their …: Google Alert – fraudsters
Over 300 criminals wanted by India on Interpol list: Some of the high-profile economic fraudsters who have been put on the Red Corner list by the Interpol include Nirav Modi, Mehul Choksi and the wife …: Google Alert – fraudsters
?onstruction fraudsters arrested in Georgia: In Georgia, employees of the Anti-Corruption Agency of the Security Service detained four people and indicted two more for construction fraud in …: Google Alert – fraudsters
Riot as Ogun residents accuse police of killing Shooting Stars footballer: … command shot two traders in Abeokuta while chasing internet fraudsters. … highway, and shot him, on the pretext that he was an internet fraudster.: Google Alert – fraudsters