16 stories tagged fraud, newest first.
614 points by oidar | 623 comments
TechSpot article on a Pennsylvania woman jailed and facing up to six years in prison over a fraudulent Cash App account opened in her name by scammers.
56 points by samclemens | 8 comments
A reported essay in The Dial by Snigdha Poonam investigating AI-assisted scams targeting authors, such as fake book clubs, publishers, and agents.
9 points by benchtobedside | 0 comments
New York Times article about a documentary on Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos, told through the reporter who exposed the fraud; the capture shows a captcha page.
167 points by luu | 69 comments
Jeremy Reimer's blog post recounting the story of Mineserver, a crowdfunded Minecraft server product, and the consequences of lies behind it.
272 points by ilamont | 161 comments
Postal Employee Network news article reporting that U.S. Postal Inspectors shut down a website selling millions of counterfeit postage labels.
776 points by advisedwang | 364 comments
A personal blog post by a software engineer reflecting on whether his job at startup GenieDB, taken over by Stuart Frost's Frost VP fund, existed only because of fraud.
412 points by cwwc | 304 comments
New York Times article reporting the FBI arrest of CIA official David Rush, found with $40 million in gold bars, charged with inflating credentials to obtain military leave pay.
715 points by freddykruger | 238 comments
A Substack investigation alleging that compliance startup Delve falsely convinced hundreds of customers they were compliant and then lied when exposed.
436 points by noleary | 207 comments
TechCrunch article reporting that a fintech founder was charged with fraud after his 'AI' shopping app was found to rely on human workers in the Philippines.
391 points by acdha | 142 comments
Ben Tasker's blog post recounting how he engaged with and baited a romance scammer who contacted him via spam emails.
643 points by ortusdux | 234 comments
Virgin Media O2 press release announcing Daisy, an AI voice persona of an elderly woman designed to keep phone scammers talking and waste their time.
325 points by svenfaw | 156 comments
The Block news article on a lawsuit alleging Google took three months to remove a scam app from its store that stole over $5 million in crypto.
469 points by dblitt | 483 comments
CNBC news article reporting that Boeing agreed to plead guilty to a conspiracy fraud charge tied to the 737 Max crashes, paying a $243.6 million fine and accepting a monitor.
417 points by bsdz | 297 comments
CNN news article about a Hong Kong finance worker who paid out $25 million after a video call with scammers using a deepfake of the company's CFO.
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624 points by donpott | 281 comments
Kitboga YouTube video in which he lures about 200 scammers into an endless, impossible maze to waste their time.
439 points by caust1c | 308 comments
Reuters news article reporting that the founder of crypto lender Celsius Network was arrested and charged with fraud, alongside an SEC lawsuit.