#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.

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.