5 Texans sentenced up to 40 years for $17M fraud scheme, including romance scams

5 Texans sentenced up to 40 years for $17M fraud scheme, including romance scams

Five people from Texas were given lengthy federal prison sentences Monday for their roles in an elaborate, transnational fraud scheme that swindled approximately $17 million from victims worldwide, including vulnerable elderly individuals.

Foreign national sentenced for cyber scams targeting U.S

A foreign national has been sentenced to three and a half years in federal prison for conducting cyber fraud schemes targeting U.S. citizens and businesses. Ridwan Adeleke Adepoju, 33, from Lagos, Nigeria, operated various scams from Nigeria, including phishing and romance scams, as well as submitting fraudulent tax returns. These schemes used spoofed email addresses, fictional social media personas, and unwitting money mules to deceive victims.…

Indian National Sentenced to Federal Prison for Defrauding Elderly Americans While on Student Visa - American Kahani

Indian National Sentenced to Federal Prison for Defrauding Elderly Americans While on Student Visa

Ghostwriting Scam - Schneier on Security

The variations seem to be endless. Here’s a fake ghostwriting scam that seems to be making boatloads of money. This is a big story about scams being run from Texas and Pakistan estimated to run into tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars, viciously defrauding Americans with false hopes of publishing bestseller books (a scam you’d not think many people would fall for but is surprisingly huge). In January, three people were charged with defra…