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Nominally a legal defense fund for Louis Daniel Smith, who faced criminal charges in relation to him selling "MMS" (Miracle Mineral Supplement). On May 27, 2015, Smith was found guilty of fraud and other charges. [38] On May 31, 2015, the mmsdefensefund was removed from GoFundMe (an archived copy is available). [39]
In August, 2020 Brian Kolfage, Steve Bannon, Andrew Badolato and Timothy Shea were charged with a scheme to divert over a million dollars from We Fund the Wall, of which at least $350,000 illegally went to Kolfage for personal use. The men faced federal felony charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering.
The payouts being made by the Madoff Victim Fund (MVF) are worth $131.4m (£104.6m) and are set to bring the total amount it has handed out to 40,930 claimants to $4.3bn.
For example, they may contact a victim saying they can track and apprehend the scammer and recover the money lost by the victim for a price. Or they may say a fund has been set up by the Nigerian government to compensate victims of 419 fraud, and all that is required is proof of the loss, personal information, and a processing and handling fee.
A long-running scam by insiders has defrauded a Holocaust survivor's fund out of tens of millions of dollars. Six employees of the nonprofit group The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against ...
Elizabeth Holmes, convicted of 4 counts of felony fraud in January 2022 – three counts of wire fraud, and one of conspiracy to commit wire fraud for misleading investors on the biotech company Theranos, a diagnostics company claiming to be able to perform multianalyte clinical chemistry using unsound liquid-handling tech. Company results were ...
A person discovers their parents secretly opened credit cards in their name to fund vacations, leaving them with over $10,000 in debt and a shattered sense of trust. The post Guy Surprised Parents ...
On January 16, 2009, the United Kingdom Serious Fraud Office uncovered an £80 million buy-to-let property fraud scheme operating under a company called Practical Property Portfolio in which at least 1,750 investors were conned out of £25,000 each in return for a promise of a house in the North East of England. All five directors—John Potts ...