Excerpt – Money making scams are taking place left and right, from job scams, to business opportunity scams, and so much more. The rate at which they are increasing has crossed over 67%. Always keep in mind the red flags and never fall for such scams. Keep reading to find out more.
Excerpt – Scammers are not only going after businesses, multinational corporations, or governmental institutes, no! They are now using immersive technology and strategies to attack ordinary individuals like you, your friends, and your family.
Excerpt – This new generation of Netflix TV shows is helpful to raise awareness about a growing crime type and the significance of digital technologies in new sorts of fraud, but they don’t reflect the wide range of romance fraud cases and, more significantly, the wide range of victims who fall victim to it.
California leads the list in 2021, with over 3,000 casualties and a total loss of $184 million. That’s more than twice as much as the second-place finisher, Florida, which suffered roughly $70 million in damages from 1,738 victims. Texas was next, with 1,752 victims and roughly $65 million in romance scandals. Maine was last on the list, losing $386,894, Vermont lost $528,709, and DC lost $861,723. Read on to find out more on how Vermont became the second least scammed state in the US.
Cindy Tsai was duped out of $2.5 million by an online scammer who gained her trust while she was dying of cancer — is not an isolated one, but a tragic example of the burgeoning romance scam racket, in which the sophisticated, silver-tongued, con artists of old have moved online.
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Scammers are illegally raising money in the name of projects like metaverse, robbing millions from people of their hard-earned money. Some of the popular ways in which scammers are illicitly making profits using metaverse as the premise of their scam include packaging metaverse related concepts such as artificial intelligence, augmented and virtual realities, and video gaming into a high tech package. Projects promising high-tech integration like artificial intelligence and virtual reality support trick investors into giving them high returns.
According to a report, romance scams have nearly doubled since the start of the Pandemic, with victims losing more than $18 million. The US Federal Trade Commission said that in 2021 they saw a record $547 million stolen in romance scams which marked a nearly 80 percent increase compared to the year before.
Westpac CEO Peter King should be pondering where the next blow will come from. A couple of hours after the corporate controller declared that Westpac would pay $87 million to repay monetary arranging clients for a progression of chronicled issues, the bank uncovered it has uncovered likely misrepresentation in its institutional bank worth up to $200 million and has made a lawful move against a gear supplier called Forum Group in the Federal Court.
Scams can be complex and hard to fix. If you suspect that you have been scammed, the best way to fix the problem is to get expert help because you will need advice on legal and procedural matters.
