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The first person in the country charged with fraudulently seeking pandemic business loans was sentenced to more than four years in federal prison, according to authorities.David Adler Staveley, 54, of Andover, Massachusetts, faked his suicide to evade arrest after prosecutors said he tried to scam the government out of $543,000 in coronavirus relief funds.Staveley and…
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Fin24’s weekly SA Money Report provides bite-size takes on financial and business stories, along with a deep dive into the story of the week. Unless you have been living in North Korea, you are likely to have heard about the wildly successful Netflix show from south of the border called Squid Game.Without spoiling too much of…
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Eighteen former NBA players were charged with attempting to defraud the NBA’s Health and Welfare Benefit Plan out of nearly $4 million, officials said Thursday.The defendants include Terrence Williams, Alan Anderson, Anthony Allen, Shannon Brown, William Bynum, Ronald Glen “Big Baby” Davis, Christopher Douglas-Roberts, Melvin Ely, Jamario Moon, Darius Miles, Milton Palacio, Ruben Patterson, Eddie…
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As diligent as Apple is about keeping fraudulent apps off of its digital storefront, it simply can’t stop them all. Malicious apps find their way onto the App Store year in and year out. That’s probably why Apple has decided to recruit its own users to report scam apps on the App Store. Apple launches…
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Read enough financial news these days and you’ll see a lot of stories about “ESG investing,” which stands for “environmental, social, and governance.” The trend is meant to encourage, broadly, socially responsible and environmentally friendly investing, rather than a pure focus on how much money an investor earns. At the most basic level, ratings firms…
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Scam artists conned Irish people out of more than €15 million in the year to the end of July with fraudulent activity jumping by almost 80 per cent as criminals sought to maximise their profits from the fear and uncertainty caused by Covid-19. Victims were tricked out of an average of €5,300 by criminals with…
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Image: OpenseaWhile NFTs are themselves one giant scam, there is room for lesser scams within the whole, and this week has provided us with one of the funniest examples to date.As Vice report, over 4000 NFTs in the ‘Evolved Apes’ offering have been sold since they first went on sale a week ago, with their…
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Photo: Tero Vesalainen (Shutterstock)Being asked “can you hear me?” by a caller might seem innocent enough, but even a one-word answer of “yes” could put you at risk of a scam. In rare cases, phone scammers can record your voice with the intent to impersonate you in order to make fraudulent purchases, but it’s more…
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Hong Kong police arrested a domestic worker Tuesday for her alleged role in two phone scams in September. In both cases, the first on Sept. 6 and the second on Sept. 9, the victims—elderly women—received a phone call from a fraudster, and were made to believe that their son had been arrested while drunk. They…
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