#Fraud

#Fraud

"Dr. Wendy Osefo and her husband, Edward Osefo, are back home safely with their family and in good spirits," a spokesperson said in a statement. "They are grateful for the outpouring of concern and support from friends, fans, and colleagues. The Osefos, alongside their legal team, look forward to their day in court. At this time, they respectfully ask for privacy as they focus on their family and the legal process ahead."

Gambling debt scandals are cautionary tales, often in the worst way possible. They show how quickly addiction can derail lives and erase fortunes, not to mention break up families and ruin relationships. Whether the person in question is an athlete, executive, lawyer or heir, they all seem to fall into the same pattern where losses compound and desperate attempts to recover the money or conceal its loss usually fail.

Britain's leading banks have warned the government against capping the resale prices of concert and event tickets, claiming the move would push ticket touts and fraudulent sellers onto unregulated social media platforms. In a submission to ministers, UK Finance, the trade body representing Lloyds, NatWest, HSBC, Barclays and more than 300 other financial institutions, said proposed ticket price caps could backfire by driving "tout activity" away from regulated platforms such as Viagogo and towards sites like Facebook Marketplace, where fans are more exposed to scams.

Fallen fintech phenom Charlie Javice, convicted of tricking JPMorgan Chase into paying $175 million for Frank, her student financial aid website, is asking a federal judge for a no-jail sentence and zero restitution. Late Monday, lawyers for Javice, 33, filed nearly 300 pages of legal arguments and support letters ahead of her scheduled September 29 sentencing on four counts of defrauding the largest US bank.

Tech giants have a clear responsibility here: the tools already exist to disable stolen devices, and it's time to use them.

As a quick recap, Holmes claimed that her company had invented a medical testing device, called Edison, that could detect a wide range of illnesses - diabetes, cancers, and more - with just a few pinpricks of blood. These claims were nothing short of fantastical, according to experts, and absolutely not based in reality: the Edison machine didn't actually work, and wrought havoc in the lives of patients who received misdiagnoses.

A Hemet woman allegedly defrauded at least seven people of nearly $200,000 through what the Riverside County Sheriff's Office described as a "wholesale avocado business" scam. Deputies from the Perris Sheriff's Station were called in on April 23 for a fraud investigation, according to a news release. After speaking with a fraud victim, deputies found that seven people had been affected by the scheme.

Theft by false pretenses: A Saratoga resident reported that someone emailed them posing as a representative with an online payment company, claimed $10,000 was mistakenly deposited into the victim's account, and then instructed the victim to mail cash to an unknown address in Southern California, to which the victim complied, for a total loss of about $9,500. Identity theft: A Saratoga resident reported that someone used their personal information to obtain bank and cellular phone service accounts. No financial loss was reported.

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.

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

Greene stated that Santos's 87-month prison sentence for fraud and identity theft is a "grave injustice" and an example of unequal treatment under the law. She argued his conduct was campaign-related, though federal prosecutors provided extensive findings contrary to her framing.