Scams

The British Army’s official Twitter and YouTube accounts were breached on July 3rd for almost 4 hours. The hackers initially took over the social media accounts, with over half a million followers combined, at around 2 PM ET, and…

<!-- SHOW ARTICLE -->The Maui News The state Department of Public Safety is warning of a recurring scam in which callers impersonate sheriffs and try to extort money. In recent days, several people have called the Sheriff…

U.S. commodities regulator CFTC announced on Thursday, June 30th, that it had filed civil charges against Cornelius Johannes Steynberg, the CEO of South African-based company MTI, for operating a fraudulent commodity pool worth over…

The FBI has announced the addition of Ruja Ignatova, the self-proclaimed ‘Cryptoqueen,’ to its ten most wanted fugitives list after she allegedly swindled millions of investors out of more than $4 billion in the OneCoin…

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has charged Cornelius Johannes Steynberg and his company Mirror Trading International (MTI), with fraud and registration violations.The South African trading company is the subject of a…

OneCoin founder Ruja Ignatova, also known as “Cryptoqueen,” was added to the list of the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives for her role in allegedly defrauding investors of more than $4 billion.This action was taken by the FBI New York, along…

According to the newest report from Coincub, North Korea is the top country in crypto-related crime.  There are 15 documented cases of crypto crimes that took place between 2017 and 2022. Crimes were conducted by 7,000 hackers and…

The professional social network LinkedIn has seen a consistent increase in the number of scams on the platform in recent months. From fake profiles to…

In an important ruling,1 the English High Court has recognised for the first time that there is an arguable case that non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are to be treated as property under English law. This means that the powerful proprietary…

Your phone is likely selling your location information to the highest bidder. But there are steps you can take to help prevent that.The issue has been raised in Congress in recent weeks. In mid-June, a group of Democratic senators…