How Americans are losing their life savings to crypto fraud
More and more Americans are losing thousands of dollars to a scheme that takes fraudsters weeks or months to pull off. “Pig butchering” scams earned the name from the idea …
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Roche alleges counterfeit diabetes medical devices were sold on Amazon
Roche Diabetes Care Inc. Accu-Chek brand glucose test strips are arranged for a photograph in the Brooklyn borough of New York, U.S., on Thursday, April 4, 2019. Alex Flynn | …
IRS employee charged in Exxon Mobil tax credit theft bid
Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images News | Getty Images A former IRS employee was charged in Utah federal court for allegedly trying to steal $2.1 million in tax credits owed …
Facebook and Nike diversity manager gets prison for fraud
Barbara Furlow-Smiles attends the 2020 Sisters’ Awards at Skirball Cultural Center on March 08, 2020 in Los Angeles, California. Robin L. Marshall | Getty Images A former diversity manager at …
Inside the final prison verdict on an epic crypto CEO rivalry
Combination showing Former FTX CEO, Sam Bankman-Fried (L) and Zhao Changpeng (R), founder and chief executive officer of Binance. Mike Segar | Reuters | Benjamin Girette | Bloomberg | Getty …
Data center provider Equinix ‘selling an AI pipe dream’
Charles J. Meyers, president and CEO of Equinix, poses in his office in Redwood City, Calif., Dec. 18, 2018. Nhat V. Meyer | Bay Digital First Media | The Mercury …
Harvard Business School grad allegedly swindled alums with Ponzi scheme
A general view of the Baker Library/Bloomberg Center on February 17, 2024, at Harvard Business School in Allston, MA. Erica Denhoff | Icon Sportswire | Icon Sportswire | Getty Images …
Prison inmate stole $550 million in Covid tax credits
Kameleon007 | Istock | Getty Images A California prison inmate locked up on a gang-related murder conviction led a scheme that defrauded the U.S. government out of more than $550 …
Banks ask for help protecting customers from online romance scams
The banking industry is seeking help from the federal government and the social media industry to stop an escalating crisis that’s costing Americans billions of dollars every year: online romance …
Investors in Airbnb arbitrage business allege they were defrauded
Illustration by Elham Ataeiazar Daryn Carr is no stranger to side hustles. After his mom died from Covid in 2020, he used funds from her pension to pay off some …