Tag: Scams
70% of all e-commerce scams last year happened on Carousell – and it’s now rolling out even more measures to lower the fraud rate
Out of all types of scams, e-commerce came out tops last year, SPF said.
The best-selling author of ‘The Woman In the Window’ says he faked brain cancer to cover up his bipolar diagnosis
Dan Mallory, whose book "The Woman in the Window" is becoming a film, had a history of fabricating parts of his life, according to The New Yorker.
A Chinese bank programmer discovered an ATM loophole that let him withdraw $1 million in cash
Qin Qisheng was sentenced to 10-and-a-half years in prison in December, more than a year after launching his ATM scam in Beijing, China.
10 times famous works of art turned out to be fake
We rounded up some of the most notorious instances of artworks that turned out to not be authentic.
Some people were duped by fake alerts to computer viruses – and it cost them a total of S$28,000 last year
Received a virus warning on your computer? Be careful. It might not be real.
A Virginia woman swindled $5 million in a healthcare-investment scam so she could stay at the Ritz and enjoy a $200,000 trip to Italy
Keisha Williams was sentenced on Friday to 15 1/2 years in federal prison after admitting to running a fraudulent healthcare-software scheme.
5 GoFundMe campaigns that weren’t what they claimed to be
While GoFundMe crowdfunding campaigns have raised millions of dollars for worthy causes, not all crowdfunders have had pure intentions.
People have been sharing a too-good-to-be-true Lululemon ambassador Instagram post and it’s actually a scam
People on social media circulated a story from an Instagram account called @lulurecruitment this week, which Lululemon said is not a verified account.
The ‘secret sister’ gift exchange on Facebook is actually an illegal pyramid scheme
If it sounds too good to be true, it almost certainly is.
A Minnesota man allegedly faked his own death by putting his clothes and ID on a dead body to collect $2 million
Igor Vorotinov, 54, allegedly put his clothes and ID on an unidentified corpse in Moldova.