Real estate agent Filip Mrkajic, 40, and singer Romana Panic, 45, attached bank card skimming devices and pinhole cameras to three Brisbane ATMs in March and April.

Ronayerin Ogolor, 51, a naturalized US citizen from Nigeria living in Missouri, in October pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud for his role in a sprawling romance scam targeting men and women.

Washington and other states have been hit by coordinated scam attacks that have resulted in "hundreds of millions" in theft. The groups leveraged old data breaches.

Fox Business Network announced on Friday that it has officially “parted ways” with anchor Trish Regan following her controversial rant against what she called the “coronavirus impeachment scam” earlier this month. “We thank her for her contributions to the network over the years and wish her continued success in her future endeavors,” the network said in […]

Cyber criminals posing as the World Health Organisation have been trying to access personal computers by sending out emails that claim to have essential coronavirus information.

The McMillions documentary reveals how security auditor Jerome Jacobsen stole winning McDonald’s Monopoly game pieces worth $24million and sold them over a decade.

Two Canadian brothers pleaded guilty to bitcoin scam worth over $150,000 in federal court. Oregon Live reported Monday that the two brothers, Karanjit and Jagroop Singh Khatkar, stole about 23 bitcoins (currently worth around $157,000) from a 63-year-old Oregon woman after they created a fake Twitter account to impersonate Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency exchange HitBTC.The post […]

Thirty-four per cent have been scammed through buying on social media, according to a Lloyds Bank survey of more than 2,000 people. Fifty-five per cent think a bank transfer is a safe payment method.

Ten years after the nation was captivated by the story of a six-year-old boy apparently whisked away in a weather balloon, it has been revealed how the child’s mother kept a diary of the scam.

Max Bruce, from City of London Police, revealed the three simple ways to identify a scam email. In tonight’s Fake Britain, which aired at 7.30pm on BBC1, he also pointed out ways to protect yourself.