#fraud

#fraud

Between November 1, 2022, and December 30, 2023, a group of three individuals allegedly used a network of websites to purchase over 379,776 tickets from Ticketmaster, spending $57 million. They resold those tickets for nearly $64 million.

Mitch William Gross, a 34-year-old man from Earling, Iowa, is about to spend four months in federal prison for buying $145,000 worth of Pokémon cards and gaming items through fraud.

Singer Sean Kingston received a sentence of three and a half years in prison for a $1 million fraud scheme involving luxury items he did not pay for.

A primary school teacher defrauded colleagues out of over €2,000 in 'an elaborate hoax' and failed to repay a €1,000 loan from the school's board.

Three men were convicted for stealing £6 million from 41 victims through a fraudulent wine investment scheme, overcharging pensioners by 400% and manipulating them.

A Nigerian man, Chukwuemeka Victor Amachukwu, has been extradited to the U.S. to face charges of computer hacking, fraud, and identity theft.

Michele Cenci, a former purchasing secretary at a Staten Island elementary school, has been ordered to pay back $145,000 after a grand larceny indictment.

Burton pleaded guilty Thursday to wire fraud conspiracy and money laundering conspiracy, facing a maximum of 20 years in prison for both charges.

Harshvardhan Jain, arrested for running a fake embassy, duped people by offering overseas employment through false promises and impersonation of ambassadors for fictional nations.

The suspect impersonated an ambassador and allegedly duped people for money by promising overseas employment, said the senior police officer Sushil Ghule of Uttar Pradesh state's special taskforce.

Four men have been charged for a series of burglaries where victims were allegedly targeted on LGBT dating app Grindr.

Hewlett Packard (HP) is set to recoup more than 700 million ($944 million) from the estate of the late Mike Lynch and his former business partner, Sushovan Hussain.

Amaris Marie Delapena, a Florida lawyer, has been suspended after being convicted of 15 counts of wire fraud and 22 counts of bank fraud, amounting to over $193,000 in embezzlement.

Chiarello's estate alleges that upon his death, three individuals "immediately and maliciously embarked on a campaign of coercion, fraud, and interference to try to trick, intimidate, and pressure Chef Chiarello's Estate" to surrender his restaurants and related assets to them.

These things are industrial-scale fraud factories that are using some of the most modern technology available, and their use of that technology is allowing them to scale these things very quickly. ... I don't even think American law enforcement has figured out how to get their heads around this yet.