A new report has uncovered a massive advertising fraud scheme that made scammers serious cash, fooled marketing companies and killed users’ smartphone batteries. The scheme operated via fake banner advertisements that were secretly hidden behind legitimate banner ads in Android apps, according to BuzzFeed News. ADVERTISEMENT This scam was previously spotted by at least two ad […]
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Mike Lynch, the founder of the software group Autonomy, was a “controlling and demanding individual” of whom it was inconceivable that he was unaware of the fraudulent practices alleged to have been taking place at his company, the high court has heard. The claims are included in the opening submissions of a civil claim brought by Hewlett
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London (CNN)UK police have arrested India’s billionaire diamond dealer Nirav Modi in London over his alleged involvement in a bank fraud that could be worth $2 billion. Modi was arrested Tuesday on “behalf of the Indian authorities,” according to a statement from London’s Metropolitan Police. His plea for bail was later denied and he was remanded
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A Uitenhage man may have lost R330,000 in a black-dollar scam last year – but on Friday he received some retribution when the Port Elizabeth high court ordered that he be given a Mercedes Benz confiscated from the man who scammed him. Rhyno Olivier had given Moses Orimutambira R330,000 in cash on May 11 2018
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The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), has recorded another successful prosecution in its relentless pursuit to rid Nigeria of visa racketeers. The Commission secured a conviction for one Adedeji Ayobami at a Lagos State High Court, sitting in Ikeja, for attempting to procure a United States of America (USA) visa with
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Omeli Darlington, a former staff member of First Bank of Nigeria, has spoken about how he was implicated in a fraud of N355million, allegedly carried out by staff of First Bank and Olam Nigeria Limited. Speaking during an interview with SaharaTV, Darlington broke down in tears, revealing how as a dispatch rider for First Bank
A church warden accused of plotting the murders of two pensioners has admitted conning them into believing he was in a “genuine, caring relationship” with them in order to defraud them. University guest lecturer Peter Farquhar, 69, and retired head teacher Ann Moore-Martin, 83, were found dead in Maids Moreton, Buckinghamshire. At the Old Bailey,
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Tanitoluwa Adewumi is an eight-year-old US chess champion. He’s also a refugee from Nigeria, whose family fled Boko Haram. More than $180,000 (£130,000) was raised for him after he won New York State’s chess championship. The money means his family will be able to move out of the homeless shelter they’ve lived in for the
Police in Eastern China’s Anhui Province have detained 62 people over a massive telecom fraud. The fraud caused the 62 people swindled over $1.77 million out of more than 1,500 victims across the country. Earlier in January 2019, a victim surnamed, Qiu, reported to the local Police Chuzhou city that he had been cheated of
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Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta, Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), has said that over 75 per cent of electronics devices imported into Nigeria are irreparable and toxic junk. Danbatta stated this on Tuesday in Abuja during the public inquiry on draft guidelines on disaster recovery and draft regulations on e-waste. He said Nigeria had
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