Fraud

Students, Schools React to $25-Million College Admissions Scam

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United States government lawyers called it the biggest college admissions scam ever prosecuted by the U.S. Justice Department. On March 12, U.S. Attorney Andrew Lelling announced that 50 people across the country had been charged in a $25-million plot to reportedly buy admission into top American colleges. Lelling said the plot was set up to guarantee admissions […]

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US universities Felicity Huffman among dozens charged over admissions fraud at top US schools

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US federal prosecutors have charged the Hollywood actors Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin, along with almost 50 other people, over a $25m scheme to help wealthy Americans buy their children’s way into elite universities including Yale, Georgetown, Stanford and the University of Southern California Huffman appeared in court in Los Angeles on Tuesday afternoon, where a

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Nigerian astronaut lost in space needs $3m to get home

/ / Cybercrime, Fraud, International, Nigeria

Anorak received an urgent email from the cousin of Nigerian Astronaut, Air Force Major Abacha Tunde: Subject: Nigerian Astronaut Wants To Come Home Dr. Bakare Tunde Astronautics Project Manager National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA) Plot 555 Misau Street PMB 437 Garki, Abuja, FCT NIGERIA Dear Mr. Sir, REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE-STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL I am Dr.

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Man convicted of fraud, jailed four months

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The accused, Tosin Iyanu Gbenro Adesina/Ibadan Justice P. I. Ajoko of the Federal High Court, Ibadan on Tuesday March 12, 2019 sentenced one Ogundiran Tosin Iyanu to four months imprisonment for fraud. Ogundiran was found guilty of one-count charge of obtaining money by false pretence preferred against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,

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FBI warns of SIM-swap scams, IBM finds holes in visitor software, 13-year-old girl charged over JavaScript prank…

/ / Forensics, Fraud, News, Security

FBI warns of SIM-swapping outbreak Holding a substantial amount of crypto-currency? You may want to take a close look at your multi-factor authentication settings on your online accounts, particularly your email, and protections on your cellphone plan. The FBI is warning of what it says is an uptick in SIM-swapping fraudincidents. Criminals call a target’s phone carrier’s customer

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Uber driver drove sleeping woman miles away from home to ‘up the fare’. Now he’s facing years in the clink for kidnapping, fraud

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An Uber driver has admitted kidnapping and wire fraud charges after he drove a sleeping passenger at least 60 miles from her destination in order to, seemingly, increase his fare. Harbir Parmar, 25, of Long Beach, New York, pleaded guilty on Monday in a US district court to the pair of charges. According to testimony [PDF] by

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How fake news was weaponized in Nigeria’s elections

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Lagos, Nigeria (CNN)As denials go, it was extraordinary and more than a little surreal. The sitting president of Africa’s largest democracy was forced to refute repeated claims that he had died and a clone was now running his office. “This is the real me,” said Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari, dismissing the allegation as “ignorant rumors”

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34 Yahoo Boys, OOU Students Arrested With Charms, Exotic Cars Recovered

/ / Cybercrime, Events, Fraud, Nigeria

The suspected cyber criminals who are between 19 and 37 years of age include: twenty-three students of Olabisi Onabanjo University, out of which nine were ladies who allegedly claimed to be girlfriends and or neighbours of some of the suspects; one from the National Open University of Nigeria and twelve others are non-students. The Commission got wind

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Urgent background checks are ordered on 3,000 foreign doctors after woman, 56, is found to have used her fake degree to work for the NHS as a psychiatrist for 22 YEARS

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The backgrounds of 3,000 foreign doctors are being urgently checked after a conwoman with no qualifications was allowed to work as an NHS psychiatrist for 22 years. Zholia Alemi, 56, claimed to have a degree from the University of Auckland in New Zealand when she came to work in the UK in 1992. In reality, the convicted fraudster had flunked

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Paternity Fraud High in Nigeria as Fathers Have Been Raising Children That Are not Theirs

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Social media, particularly Twitter, has been awash with reports that Nigeria has the second highest rate of paternity fraud in the world, with Jamaica leading on the list. But how true is this? Paternity fraud is a deeply problematic issue in Nigeria as fathers have been raising children that are not theirs. It is something

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