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A sextortion scam targeting emails is underway nationwide, in an attempt to coerce payments using threats of embarrassment, according to New York State Police. How does the sextortion scam work?
Eleanor Williams (born 26 November 2000) is an English convicted criminal, from Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England who made false claims of multiple serious crimes, including accusations of trafficking, rape by a group of men of Asian descent, blackmail, and physical violence, none of which were found to have occurred.
Nina Kollars of the Naval War College explains an Internet fraud scheme that she stumbled upon while shopping on eBay.. Internet fraud is a type of cybercrime fraud or deception which makes use of the Internet and could involve hiding of information or providing incorrect information for the purpose of tricking victims out of money, property, and inheritance.
Honest services fraud is a crime defined in 18 U.S.C. § 1346 (the federal mail and wire fraud statute), added by the United States Congress in 1988. [1] The idea of this law was to criminalize not only schemes to defraud victims of money and property, but also schemes to defraud victims of intangible rights such as the "honest services" of a public official.
Philadelphia attorney Gary Schildhorn received a call from who he believed was his son, saying that he needed money to post bail following a car crash. Mr Schildhorn later found out he nearly fell ...
Scams have advanced quite a way from the likes of three-card monte. Now if you fall victim to something fraudulent created by artificial intelligence, or AI, it is more unexpected as the high ...
Scammers are trying harder than ever to take advantage of unwitting victims via text message scams. According to "The RoboKiller Report: 2022 Mid-Year Phone Scam Insights," more than 147 billion...
The National Child Victim Identification Program (NCVIP) is the world's largest database of child pornography, maintained by the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS) of the United States Department of Justice and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) for the purpose of identifying victims of child abuse. [1] [2]