The crushing story of internet romance fraud is becoming increasingly evident as a woman loses close to $400,000 in a well-staged scam. In what started out as innocent chats on Facebook, a lonely mother newly separated found herself emotionally invested in a younger man who said he worked for a global IT firm. The man informed her that he was abroad working on installing new betting systems for a casino and said he had found a "glitch" that...
More and more online consumers are raising the alarm against a purported cryptocurrency investment scam going by the name of Millennium Trading (user.millenniumtrading.co). One of the victims stepped forward with a detailed description of what happened, hoping to warn others and avoid further loss. In the victim's account, the site at first seemed to be real. They had a so-called "personal manager" by the name of Zuev Vladimir, who spoke...
A small town resident of approximately 10,000 people recently recounted a frightening encounter that could possibly indicate a scam on innocent individuals. While on a shopping trip, the person was stopped by a man who was nicely dressed. The man immediately asked, "Do you have CashApp or Venmo? " The man said he couldn't cash a money order and needed to send $400 to his sister, who had just bought a car. He proposed the money order in return...
A prospective digital artist recently recounted their difficult experience of almost becoming a victim of a sophisticated scam in the guise of a commission request. Initially contacted through DeviantArt, the artist was contacted by someone who identified himself as a prospective client. The communication was soon transferred to Discord, where they were negotiating commission terms and the client agreeing to pay $200 via Cash App. The situation...
A resident was left shaken after waking up to an email from the financial services provider Chime confirming the opening of an account in a name that was not their own. The local resident contacted Chime directly through verified contact information, and the company indicated it was perhaps an innocent case of the wrong email address being entered and had removed it. But the circumstances took a toll when the individual found some incriminating...
