Tulsa World staffers received dozens of calls from Sierra Leone phone numbers, some listed as originating from the U.S., that are said to be part of a call-back scam. Recent calls from Sierra Leone to people in the Tulsa area and around the state are reportedly scams. The Sand Springs Police Department put out a […]
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Cape Town – In 2004, Elizabeth Holmes dropped out of Stanford at 19 to start a company that was going to revolutionise healthcare. In 2014, Theranos was valued at $9bn, making Holmes, who was touted as ‘the next Steve Jobs’, and the youngest self-made female billionaire in the world. Just two years later, Theranos was
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Paris – A Russian athlete who infamously used the identity of a friend to circumnavigate her country’s state-sponsored doping suspension was on Wednesday handed a 12-year ban, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) announced. Kseniya Savina, 29, underwent an out-of-competition control in Ifrane, Morocco, on May 15, 2018 with banned blood booster EPO detected in her
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A Nigerian grandma whose actions led to the death of an 8-month-old baby in the U.S state of Maryland, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison. Oluremi Adeleye, 73, broke down crying in court as she spoke through an interpreter, saying, “It was a mistake” and “I didn’t want to kill that child.” Adeleye
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A Nigerian internet fraudster popularly known as Yahoo Boy, Hammed Akinola has bagged 180 months (15 years) imprisonment for a $10million fraud. His sentence was ordered by a Federal High Court in Houston, Texas, in the United States of America (USA) . Akinola’s accomplice American accomplice was not spared also, U.S. District Judge David Hittner
Experts at Kaspersky Lab’s annual Cyber Security Weekend discussed the wide spread growth of mobile payments across the globe and the many cyber risks that surround such technology. Especially the recent SIM swap fraud wave, which have become very common in Africa and the wider region. A SIM swap fraud happens when someone convinces your
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New voluntary code comes into play to protect scams in which victim pays fraudster directly All the major UK banks and Nationwide building society have signed up to the new code of conduct. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images Bank customers who fall victim to frauds after 28 May will have a greater chance of being refunded.
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has urged the general public to be vigilant in order not to fall victim to new tricks deployed by car thieves to dispossess unsuspecting Nigerians of their vehicles. The alert was borne out of the shocking discoveries made during investigations into the allegations of crime leveled against Babatunde
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