The scammers charged at least 800 people between 80,000 and 500,000 Ugandan shillings (around US$25-US$120) for a fake shot, officials said ‘We have arrested two medical workers in the scam, and one medical doctor is on the run,’ said Dr Warren Naamara, director of a health services monitoring unit
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Giannis Antetokounmpo is the most wholesome and delightful superstar athlete on the planet, and with no sleep following a night loaded with celebration, he decided it was time to jump in his car with his new trophies and get some breakfast. Hours after leading the Milwaukee Bucks to their first championship since 1971 with an…
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LPETTET | iStock | Getty ImagesAbout 2.2 million more stimulus checks have gone out over the last six weeks, the government said Wednesday.The latest batch brings the total number of payments disbursed to more than 171 million, with an aggregate value of $400 billion, according to the announcement from the IRS, Treasury Department and Bureau…
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James Martin/CNET A UK man was arrested in Spain for his alleged role in a massive hack of high-profile Twitter accounts that targeted politicians and celebrities in 2020, the US Department of Justice said Wednesday.Spanish National Police arrested 22-year-old Joseph O’Connor on behalf of US authorities. In a criminal complaint filed in federal court in San…
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SynopsisThe 50-year-old diamond merchant, wanted in India to face charges of fraud and money laundering in the estimated USD 2-billion Punjab National Bank (PNB) scam case, observed the remotely held court proceedings from his Wandsworth Prison in south-west London as his lawyers argued for permission to appeal against his extradition ordered by District Judge Sam…
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By Mark Hunter10 hours agoWed Jul 21 2021 12:41:37 Reading Time: 2 minutes Profit Connect Wealth Services, a crypto scam that claimed it used a supercomputer to beat the market, has been halted by the SEC Profit Connect Wealth Services allegedly took some $12 million from investors and never traded a cent The operation was…
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Tether and USDT have been a lightning rod for stablecoin criticism. As the longest-surviving, it’s by far the largest which also means the question of whether each coin is backed is highly important. Given there’s no evidence that USDT are backed at anything close to a 1:1 rate (and certainly no evidence that the reserves…
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Google might never be able to stop phishing scams altogether, but it can certainly make them easier to spot. In a blog post last week, Google revealed support for a new security feature is finally rolling out for Gmail. Brand Indicators for Message Identification (BIMI) is an industry standard that attempts to bring stronger sender…
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Palos Park, IL, 20 July 2021, ZEXPRWIRE, Investment scams have been running long before the advent of the internet. The term “Ponzi scheme” was coined in 1919 when Charles Ponzi started a postage stamp investment that collapsed with him owing investors the equivalent of $196 million in today’s money. Bernie Madoff hit the headlines for…
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The Caribbean nation of Venezuela keeps registering firsts on the book. They have arguably the first-ever CBDC, the infamous Petro, and now this. The first-ever Bitcoin Mining Museum. And even though Bitcoin is barely 12 years old, the idea makes sense. Everything has been moving too fast in that arena, someone needs to register it…
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