#fraud

#fraud

An "ultimate conman" who breached the trust of "an entire community" to swindle more than £300,000 (€345,000) from a credit union has been handed a two-year sentence.

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.

According to investigators, Wong began offering legal services to some parishioners, "claiming that in addition to being a pastor, he was also an attorney affiliated with several prestigious universities." Over several years, Wong allegedly would tell these parishioners he was "working on their case" while continuing to extract money from them using their shared faith as a way out of awkward conversations about why the work was taking so long.

The American conwoman, found guilty in a Co Down court of swindling four people out of £115,000 before fleeing back to the US, constantly reinvented herself, lying to and stealing from her friends, neighbours and even a Hollywood producer

Neil Hopper, 49, whose legs were amputated below the knee, is accused of telling insurers that his injuries were the result of sepsis and were not self-inflicted, intending to make a gain. He has also been charged with encouraging someone else to remove the body parts of others after he allegedly bought videos from an extreme body modification website. Appearing at Truro Crown Court on Thursday, he pleaded guilty to two counts of fraud by false representation between 3 June and 26 June 2019.

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.

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.

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.