For attempting to defraud victims of more than $25 million through internet scams, a Nigerian, Onyekachi Emmanuel Opara, has been sentenced to five years’ imprisonment by a United States court in New York. He was also ordered to pay $2.5 million as restitution. Geoffrey Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New […]
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Kweku Adoboli, a former trader convicted of fraud in 2012, is facing deportation to Ghana, after being detained by police in Scotland. He served four years of a seven-year sentence for a £1.4bn fraud at Swiss bank UBS. He was released in 2015. Foreign nationals sentenced to more than four years are automatically considered for
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Almost five million people had money stolen from their bank or credit card account last year, at a cost of around £840 each, according to shocking new figures. More than £2bn has been snatched from about one in 10 British adults, new data from Compare the Market has revealed, and online payments are the weakest
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A bitcoin investor is suing AT&T for $240m after it allegedly ported his phone number to a hacker, allowing the criminal to steal $24m in cryptocurrency. Michael Terpin is suing the phone giant [PDF] for the value of the three million electronic coins plus $216m in punitive damages after he claims an AT&T employee at a store
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Some Nigerians using mobile money transfer service have fallen victims to a recent scam involving mysterious swapping of SIM cards. SIM swapping is a sophisticated form of fraud and falls under social engineering. Fraudsters will distribute phishing emails, trying to ascertain as much personal information from victims as possible. After swapping sim cards, fraudsters then
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – A Nigerian man who netted more than $11 million in a fraud scheme has been sentenced in Oregon to 15 years in federal prison. Emmanuel Kazeem was sentenced Wednesday in Eugene. A jury previously convicted him of fraud, conspiracy and aggravated identity theft. Prosecutors say the 35-year-old purchased more than 91,000 identities from
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Credential stuffing is rampant – so try not to reuse the same password on every site, eh? Up to 90 per cent of the average online retailer’s login traffic is generated by cybercriminals trying their luck with credential stuffing attacks, Shape Security estimated in its latest Credential Spill Report. The biz crunched the numbers [PDF] on 51
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Two cyber criminals have been sentenced for committing offences against the National Lottery following a National Crime Agency investigation. Daniel Thompson, 27, and Idris Kayode Akinwunmi, 21, were jailed for eight months and four months respectively at Birmingham Crown Court in relation to the 2016 attack. The men used an online application to bombard the
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A would-be warning, which has been circulating since at least 2005, claims that scammers are hijacking mobile phones by tricking users into pressing a specific combination of digits. A variant of the message claims that terrorists rather than scammers are using the trick in order to make calls at your expense and frame you as
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