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DOJ: Bankruptcy Discharge Denied in Crypto Ponzi Scheme Investment Fraud Case

A Texas man who ran a multimillion-dollar cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme will remain on the hook for more than $12.5 million…

September 11, 2025

Billion-Dollar Bank To Hand Out $1,956,000 To Settle Lawsuit Accusing the Lender of Improperly Rejecting Claims for Fraudulent Mastercard Transactions

A billion-dollar banking institution is handing out nearly $2 million to settle a class action lawsuit accusing the bank of…

September 11, 2025

Scammers Wipe Out Bank Account of Disabled Woman After Receiving iPhone Notification: Report

A woman in Norman, Oklahoma, says scammers drained her bank account after she responded to an iPhone notification warning of…

September 10, 2025

Fraudster Launders $36,900,000 in Proceeds of Crypto Scam That Preyed on American Investors, Sentenced to 51 Months in Prison

A California man was sentenced to 51 years in prison for helping launder more than $36.9 million conned from victims…

September 10, 2025

Ledger CTO Warns Crypto Wallets at Risk From Malicious Payload Swapping Addresses To Steal Funds

A large-scale supply chain attack exposed numerous crypto wallets to risk this week, according to an executive at the hardware…

September 10, 2025

163,440 Americans Now at Risk of Fraud – Names, Social Security Numbers, Financial Account Numbers and More Potentially Exposed

The personal information of 163,440 Americans is at risk after a hacker hit a Georgia-based hospital with a ransomware attack.…

September 9, 2025

Woman Loses $663,440 After Scammers Trick Her Into Thinking Police Had Seized Drug Parcel: Report

A wave of "digital arrest" scams has been siphoning money from victims across India, including one woman who reportedly lost…

September 9, 2025

U.S. Treasury Department Slaps Sanctions on 19 Southeast Asian Entities for Defrauding Americans of Billions of Dollars

The U.S. Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has imposed sanctions on a large network of Southeast Asian scam…

September 9, 2025

Woman Steals $881,324 by Obtaining and Altering Check From the Mail, Now Faces 30 Years Behind Bars

A woman from Kansas City, Missouri, is pleading guilty to committing bank fraud after altering the name of a stolen…

September 7, 2025

SEC Launches Cross-Border Pump-and-Dump Prevention Task Force in New Effort To Combat Fraud

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced the formation of a task force dedicated to policing fraud targeting…

September 7, 2025