by L Poole | Feb 3, 2023 | Breaking News, Featured
Whether it’s small-time crooks getting tricky with stickers on barcodes at Shoppers Drug Mart or multinational credit card companies writing shady terms of service to hoodwink grandmas, there are some serious risks involved in buying gift cards these days. Like, risks...
by L Poole | Feb 3, 2023 | Breaking News, Featured, Romance Fraud
A Florida woman has been charged with one count of wire fraud after she swindled an 87-year-old Holocaust survivor out of more than US$2.8 million in an online romance scam. Peaches Stergo, 36, met the unnamed victim on a dating website in 2017, as per an...
by L Poole | Feb 3, 2023 | Breaking Court Decisions, Breaking News, Cryptocurrency, Featured
The founder of a defunct cryptocurrency business was sentenced on Tuesday to more than eight years in prison for defrauding investors and customers out of millions of dollars by marketing a virtual currency called My Big Coin with lies and half-truths. Federal...
by L Poole | Feb 1, 2023 | Breaking News, Cryptocurrency, Featured
Awoman meets a man online. They flirt. Then, after a few weeks, they begin imagining a future together. Fast forward a few months and one of them has had their heart broken and been defrauded of their life savings. It sounds like a classic romance scam, but it isn’t....
by L Poole | Jan 27, 2023 | Breaking News, Featured
Usain Bolt is one of the most well-known athletes in the world, with the Jamaican sprinter dominating the Olympics like few other competitors have been able to, setting world records which are still yet to beaten. He’s made headline after headline for...