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Latest verified news about Fraud & Scams on Verilumia. Fact-checked and bias-analyzed Fraud & Scams stories from multiple sources.
Hackers compromised the official X accounts of SpaceXAI and Starlink on July 13, 2026, using them to promote a fraudulent cryptocurrency and netting over $125,000 before the scam was discovered and the posts were removed...
The cryptocurrency LAB has crashed by more than 95% from its peak last month, with a sharp 54% decline in recent days driven by massive sales from wallets linked to the project's founding team, according to an investigat...
Nollywood actor IK Ogbonna has publicly denied widespread online rumors alleging he is under investigation by Nigerian and U.S. authorities over a $75,000 romance scam.
A woman in Bengaluru has accused a delivery agent of forcing his way into her apartment and exposing himself after she repeatedly refused his request to use her washroom, prompting a swift police investigation and arrest...
The Bonzo Lend protocol, the largest decentralized lending platform on the Hedera blockchain, suffered a loss of approximately $9.05 million on July 11, 2026, due to an exploit of a third-party oracle service.
Phia, a shopping app co-founded by Phoebe Gates, the youngest daughter of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, has been accused of improperly claiming commissions for online sales it did not generate.
A Ghanaian social media influencer has been extradited to the United States to face charges that he orchestrated a multi-million dollar romance fraud scheme targeting elderly Americans.
A sophisticated software supply-chain attack targeting developers using the Injective blockchain's software development kit has been uncovered by security researchers.
A 33-year-old woman has agreed to plead guilty to bigamy and fraud after authorities say she married more than a dozen men in Las Vegas to fund a gambling habit.
Block, Inc., the financial technology company behind the Cash App payment service, has agreed to pay $45 million to settle a multistate investigation into allegations that it misled users about the app's security and fai...
A global police operation targeting online fraud and money laundering has led to the arrests of two individuals in Thailand accused of using cryptocurrency to launder more than $122.5 million from romance scams.
A major U.S. auto insurer has confirmed a data breach affecting the personal information of nearly seven million people, marking the largest known theft of American driver's license data so far this year.
A major international law enforcement operation targeting online fraud and money laundering has resulted in thousands of arrests and the seizure of hundreds of millions of dollars in illicit assets.
A sophisticated phishing campaign is targeting marketing professionals by impersonating recruiters from more than 30 major global brands to steal Google account credentials.
Federal regulators have filed a civil lawsuit against a North Carolina man and his firm, alleging they defrauded dozens of investors out of more than $14 million through a fraudulent commodity pool that traded futures, o...
The body of 18-year-old Nolan Xavier Wells was discovered on Monday, July 6, ending a multi-day search after the college football player went missing during a Fourth of July outing to Horn Island, Mississippi.
A critical security vulnerability affecting the recovery phrase generation of certain cryptocurrency software wallets has led to the theft of at least $5 million and continues to pose a widespread risk.
Former college basketball player Kerr Kriisa was arrested by FBI agents in Lexington, Kentucky, on July 3 in connection with a multimillion-dollar fraud investigation stemming from his time at West Virginia University du...
Spotify has confirmed a case of streaming fraud and demoted a hit song after an investigation found evidence of coordinated manipulation linked to prediction market betting.
A 66-year-old Derby woman has received a suspended prison sentence after admitting to fraudulently claiming more than £14,000 in disability benefits while living abroad for years.
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