Slashdot Items Tagged "fraud"

Date / Time Story
Thursday March 14, 2024 @04:59PM Refund Fraud Schemes Promoted Online Are Costing Amazon and Other Retailers Billions
Monday December 18, 2023 @05:01PM Nikola Founder Trevor Milton Sentenced To 4 Years For Securities Fraud
Monday November 13, 2023 @06:58PM Zelle Begins Refunds For Imposter Scams After Government Pressure
Thursday November 02, 2023 @09:55PM FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Found Guilty of Fraud
Thursday October 26, 2023 @07:53PM Sam Bankman-Fried Testifies, Says He 'Skimmed Over' FTX Terms of Service
Monday September 25, 2023 @02:26PM JPEX Appears To Be a $178 Million Fraud
Tuesday September 12, 2023 @03:58PM 'Cryptoqueen' Sidekick Gets 20 Years For $4 Billion Ponzi
Monday September 04, 2023 @03:25PM Y Combinator Removes Indian Startup From Batch Over 'Irregularities'
Thursday July 06, 2023 @09:02AM Nine British Banks Sign Up To New AI Tool for Tackling Scams
Tuesday May 30, 2023 @07:14PM Bay Area Tech Executives Indicted For H-1B Visa Fraud
Thursday March 16, 2023 @04:39PM FTX Says Bankman-Fried Took $2.2 Billion
Friday January 13, 2023 @07:45AM Jawbone Co-Founder's Health Startup Sued by Investor Alleging Fraud
Thursday January 12, 2023 @11:57AM JP Morgan Says Startup Founder Used Millions Of Fake Customers To Dupe It Into An Acquisition
Tuesday January 10, 2023 @10:05AM Consumers Fraud
Friday January 06, 2023 @12:00PM Shield Your Insurance Business against Claim Fraud with Claims Management
Thursday January 05, 2023 @12:03PM New York Sues Celsius Network Founder Mashinsky, Alleges Fraud
Friday December 30, 2022 @08:05AM The Working Mechanism of Cookie Stuffing in Creating Affiliate Fraud
Thursday December 29, 2022 @12:31PM Types of Property Fraud & Scams in the United Kingdom
Thursday December 29, 2022 @05:34AM FTX Diverted $200 Million of Customer Money For Two Venture Deals, SEC Says
Monday December 26, 2022 @02:39PM Americans Duped Into Losing $10 Billion By Illegal Indian Call Centres in 2022
Thursday December 22, 2022 @06:26PM Alameda's Caroline Ellison, FTX's Gary Wang Plead Guilty To DOJ Fraud Charges
Tuesday December 20, 2022 @05:11PM OneCoin Co-Founder Pleads Guilty To $4 Billion Fraud
Monday December 19, 2022 @06:25PM UK Govt: Netflix Password Sharing Is Illegal and Potentially Criminal Fraud
Wednesday December 14, 2022 @06:30PM US Authorities Charge 8 Social Media Influencers In Securities Fraud Scheme
Wednesday December 14, 2022 @06:09AM Secret Software Change Allowed FTX To Use Client Money
Friday December 09, 2022 @01:16PM FCC Orders Telecoms To Block Scammers Targeting Student Loan Forgiveness Seekers
Friday October 14, 2022 @05:23PM Nikola Founder Trevor Milton Found Guilty of Fraud
Wednesday October 05, 2022 @08:13AM Fraud, Scam Cases Increasing on P2P Payment Service Zelle, Senate Report Finds
Tuesday August 16, 2022 @11:48AM Losses From Crypto Hacks Surged 60% To $1.9 Billion From January To July, Chainalysis Says
Thursday July 21, 2022 @05:24PM Yes, Crypto Twitter, the FBI is Reading Your Tweets
Friday July 08, 2022 @09:52AM Lawsuit Accuses Troubled Crypto Lender Celsius Network of Fraud
Friday April 15, 2022 @02:45PM Cybercriminals Are Doing Their Homework in Latest Banking Scam
Wednesday April 06, 2022 @10:16AM Hackers Stole More Than $600 Million in Crypto. Laundering It Is the Tricky Part.
Monday March 07, 2022 @11:27AM Fraud Is Flourishing on Zelle. The Banks Say It's Not Their Problem.
Tuesday March 01, 2022 @10:34AM BitConnect's Indicted Founder Kumbhani Has Disappeared, SEC Says
Monday January 31, 2022 @12:24PM Free Covid Tests Provide Latest Venue for Suspected Fraudsters
Friday January 28, 2022 @07:37PM Crypto Co-Founder Revealed To Be Infamous Fraudster, Investors Shaken
Wednesday December 22, 2021 @02:30AM EV Startup Nikola Agrees To $125 Million Settlement
Thursday November 18, 2021 @12:08PM How Fraudsters Exploit Popular Interest-free Payment Plans
Tuesday November 09, 2021 @06:37PM Metallurgist Admits Faking Steel-Test Results For US Navy Subs
Wednesday October 27, 2021 @04:10PM Teen Bought Google Ad for His Scam Website and Made 48 Bitcoins Duping UK Online Shoppers
Tuesday October 05, 2021 @03:54PM Investors Spent Millions on 'Evolved Apes' NFTs. Then They Got Scammed
Tuesday September 14, 2021 @05:10PM SEC Charges App Annie With Securities Fraud in $10 Million Settlement
Thursday July 29, 2021 @12:05PM Nikola Founder Trevor Milton Indicted on Three Counts of Fraud
Friday April 09, 2021 @09:04AM SEC Accuses Actor of $690 Million Fraud Based on Fake Netflix Deal
Monday March 22, 2021 @03:53PM SF Poop-Testing Startup, Once Compared to Theranos, Charged in $60 Million Fraud Scheme
Monday March 22, 2021 @11:00AM A Security App's Fake Reviews Give Us a Window Into 'App Store Optimization'
Friday January 08, 2021 @09:48PM Equifax Acquires Fraud Prevention Company Kount For $640 Million
Wednesday December 30, 2020 @04:03PM Regulators Smash Global Phone Tech Support Scam Operation
Friday September 18, 2020 @04:19PM CEO of Cyber Fraud Startup NS8 Arrested By FBI, Facing Fraud Charges
Friday September 11, 2020 @06:51PM Nikola Motors Accused of Massive Fraud, Ocean of Lies
Tuesday July 21, 2020 @02:37PM Ransomware Gang Demands $7.5 Million From Argentinian ISP
Friday July 10, 2020 @11:37PM US Secret Service Creates New Cyber Fraud Task Force
Saturday June 20, 2020 @12:41AM Volkswagen Seeks Open-Source Approach To Refine Car Operating System
Monday June 08, 2020 @07:57PM Cox Slows Internet Speeds In Entire Neighborhoods To Punish Any Heavy Users
Friday May 22, 2020 @01:43AM AT&T To Drop Misleading '5G Evolution' Marketing For Non-5G Networks
Thursday April 23, 2020 @03:33PM When in Doubt: Hang Up, Look Up, and Call Back
Monday April 20, 2020 @06:04PM Uber Argues 'Fraud' Absolves It From Paying Star Engineer's $179 Million Fine
Tuesday February 25, 2020 @08:13AM PayPal Accounts Are Getting Abused En-masse For Unauthorized Payments
Friday February 07, 2020 @07:57PM Tesla Remotely Disables Autopilot On Used Model S After It Was Sold
Monday January 27, 2020 @12:19PM Seamless, Grubhub Deliver Confusion With Mistaken Restaurant Listings
Wednesday January 22, 2020 @03:27PM 'How I Stopped a Credit Card Thief From Ripping Off 3,537 People -- and Saved Our Nonprofit in the Process'
Wednesday January 15, 2020 @12:27PM Data Science Community Rocked by Pet Adoption Contest Cheating Scandal
Friday November 08, 2019 @12:14PM Ambrosia, the Young Blood Transfusion Startup, Is Quietly Back in Business
Tuesday October 29, 2019 @10:34AM 'Nearly All' Counter-Strike Microtransactions Are Being Used for Money Laundering
Tuesday October 15, 2019 @04:45PM Data For 26 Million Stolen Payment Cards Leaked In Hack of Fraud Bazaar
Friday September 27, 2019 @04:31PM MayPayrollHR CEO Arrested, Admits To $70 Million Fraud
Wednesday September 25, 2019 @05:14PM Match.com Connected Daters To Fake Accounts To Boost Subscriptions, US Regulators Say
Friday September 20, 2019 @09:25PM Two Arrested In $10 Million Tech Support Scam That Preyed On the Elderly
Monday September 09, 2019 @07:27PM US Charges Chinese Professor With Fraud For Allegedly Taking Tech From a California Company To Benefit Huawei
Monday August 19, 2019 @10:47AM 'Futurefon' Crowdfunded on Indiegogo Was Part Of a Multimillion-dollar Scam
Sunday August 18, 2019 @08:07PM Wells Fargo's Computer Kept Charging 'Overdrawn' Fees On Supposedly Closed Accounts
Friday August 16, 2019 @02:04PM AI Startup Claims To Automate App Making But Actually Just Uses Humans
Wednesday August 14, 2019 @09:45AM AI Startup Boom Raises Questions of Exaggerated Tech Savvy
Thursday August 01, 2019 @10:07AM How Over 25 People Got Scammed Into Working at a Nonexistent Game Company
Tuesday July 09, 2019 @04:08PM AT&T Will Automatically Block Fraud Calls For New Customers
Wednesday July 03, 2019 @03:24AM Frontier Refuses To Waive Router Rental Fee For Customer Who Brought His Own
Wednesday June 26, 2019 @06:11PM FCC Says Verizon Can SIM Lock Phones Again
Tuesday June 25, 2019 @04:31PM Ex-Chair of FCC Broadband Committee Gets Five Years In Prison For Fraud
Friday June 21, 2019 @01:20PM Horns Are Growing on Young People's Skulls. Phone Use is To Blame, Research Suggests
Thursday June 20, 2019 @11:11AM Music Industry Targets Troll Farms Distorting Streaming Revenues
Thursday June 06, 2019 @02:59PM Drug Company To Pay Just $15.4 Million Over Doctor Bribery Scandal Involving Medicine That Brings in $1 Billion a Year
Tuesday June 04, 2019 @02:53PM SEC Sues Kik Over $100 Million ICO
Thursday May 30, 2019 @06:02PM The Small Macedonian Town That Runs Hundreds of Fake US Politics Websites
Thursday May 30, 2019 @05:55PM The Small Macedonian Town That Runs 100s Of Fake-News U.S. Politics Sites
Thursday May 16, 2019 @03:05PM Ticketmaster Put an End To Screenshots With New Digital Ticket Technology
Tuesday May 14, 2019 @05:39PM Ralph Nader: Engineers Often the First To Notice Waste, Fraud and Safety Issues
Thursday May 09, 2019 @06:36PM Amazon Hit By Extensive Fraud With Hackers Siphoning Merchant Funds
Saturday May 04, 2019 @12:53AM Law Enforcement Seizes Dark Web Market After Moderator Leaks Backend Credentials
Friday May 03, 2019 @01:03AM NASA Says Metals Fraud Caused $700 Million Satellite Failure
Friday April 26, 2019 @04:53PM Bitcoin Drops 7 Percent On Allegations of $850 Million Fraud By Bitfinex By New York Attorney General
Tuesday April 16, 2019 @11:44AM Volkswagen's Former CEO Charged In Germany Over Diesel Rigging
Monday April 15, 2019 @07:30AM Challenging Tesla, Volkswagen Announces Electric SUV, Mass Production of Electric Vehicles
Tuesday March 12, 2019 @02:45PM Actresses, Business Leaders, and Other Wealthy Parents Charged in Massive College Admissions Scandal
Friday March 08, 2019 @03:57PM North Korea Amassed Cryptocurrency Through Hacking, Says UN Panel
Wednesday February 06, 2019 @09:59AM Scammer Groups Are Exploiting Gmail 'Dot Accounts' For Online Fraud
Friday January 25, 2019 @05:52PM Facebook Deliberately Allowed 'Friendly Fraud' To Avoid Harming Revenue
Friday January 18, 2019 @02:49PM Lawsuit Reveals How Facebook Profited Off Confused Children: Report
Thursday December 20, 2018 @11:07AM Inside the Unrelenting Scams of the Amazon Marketplace
Wednesday December 05, 2018 @12:46PM Samsung Caught (Again) Using DSLR Photo To Advertise Smartphone Camera
Monday December 03, 2018 @11:13PM Two iOS Fitness Apps Were Caught Using Touch ID To Trick Users Into Payments of $120
Thursday November 29, 2018 @12:51PM New Parents Complain Amazon Baby-Registry Ads Are Deceptive
Saturday November 24, 2018 @08:18AM French Tobacco Shops Will Sell Bitcoin and Ethereum Starting January 2019
Monday November 19, 2018 @01:37AM Man Spoofs GPS To Fake Shop Visits For Profit, Gets Caught
Friday November 09, 2018 @10:01AM US Secret Service Warns ID Thieves are Abusing USPS's Mail Scanning Service
Thursday November 08, 2018 @03:24PM Google Chrome Will Soon Warn Users About Web Pages With Unclear Mobile Billing Services
Tuesday October 23, 2018 @02:00PM Apps Installed On Millions Of Android Phones Tracked User Behavior To Execute A Multimillion Dollar Ad Fraud Scheme
Friday October 19, 2018 @12:34PM Click Farms Are Gaming Apple's Top Podcasts List
Tuesday October 02, 2018 @11:22AM Hackers Are Selling Facebook Credentials on the Dark Web For $3
Saturday September 29, 2018 @05:58PM Elon Musk Settles SEC Fraud Charges, Must Step Down As Tesla's Chairman
Wednesday September 19, 2018 @02:03PM Box-Office Giant Ticketmaster Recruits Pros For Secret Scalper Program
Wednesday September 19, 2018 @12:55PM VW Group, BMW and Daimler Are Under Investigation For Collusion In Europe
Sunday September 16, 2018 @12:08PM Amazon Says It is Investigating Claims That Its Employees Are Taking Bribes To Sell Internal Data To Merchants To Help Them Increase Their Sales on the Website
Wednesday September 05, 2018 @04:33PM Theranos To Close Shop
Monday September 03, 2018 @07:28PM US Health Insurer Premera Blue Cross Accused of Destroying Evidence in Data Breach Lawsuit
Friday August 24, 2018 @07:57PM Massive Recall of Homeopathic Kids' Products Spotlights Dubious Health Claims
Thursday August 23, 2018 @02:52PM How an International Hacker Network Turned Stolen Press Releases Into $100 million
Tuesday August 14, 2018 @05:31PM California Officials Admit To Using License Plate Readers To Monitor Welfare Recipients
Monday August 13, 2018 @12:04PM The Flourishing Business of Fake YouTube Views
Sunday August 12, 2018 @09:56AM Oracle Accused of Defrauding Investors On Cloud Sales Growth
Sunday August 05, 2018 @06:37PM Traders Are Talking Up Cryptocurrencies, Then Dumping Them, Costing Others Millions
Tuesday July 31, 2018 @01:50PM How an Ex-Cop Rigged McDonald's Monopoly Game and Stole Millions
Monday July 30, 2018 @01:50PM Cops Accuse 20-Year-Old College Student of Stealing More Than $5 Million in Bitcoin by Hijacking Phone Numbers
Monday July 16, 2018 @04:38PM Amazon's Curious Case of the $2,630.52 Used Paperback
Thursday July 05, 2018 @08:23AM An Employee of NSO Group, Which Sells Powerful Spyware, Allegedly Stole Company's Tools For Personal Profit
Friday June 22, 2018 @10:39AM America's Chipmakers Go To War vs. China
Sunday June 17, 2018 @01:30AM Was the Stanford Prison Experiment a Sham?
Friday June 15, 2018 @05:32PM US Files Criminal Charges Against Theranos's Elizabeth Holmes, Ramesh Balwani
Friday June 15, 2018 @11:11AM 6 Fitbit Employees Charged With Stealing Trade Secrets From Jawbone
Friday June 15, 2018 @01:34AM Volkswagen Fined One Billion Euros By German Prosecutors Over Emissions Cheating
Wednesday June 13, 2018 @12:34PM Bitcoin's Price Was Artificially Inflated Last Year, Researchers Say
Monday June 11, 2018 @04:16PM FBI Recovers $14M From Bogus Business Account Wire Transfers
Thursday June 07, 2018 @03:14PM Shady ICO Issuers Are Taking 'Bags of Cash' To Border, US Says
Thursday May 24, 2018 @02:59PM About $1.2 Billion in Cryptocurrency Stolen Since 2017
Friday May 11, 2018 @04:55AM Man Allegedly Used Change Of Address Form To Move UPS Headquarters To His Apartment
Monday May 07, 2018 @09:40AM Nigerian Email Scammers Are More Effective Than Ever
Monday May 07, 2018 @08:48AM Robocalls, and Their Scams, Are Surging
Saturday May 05, 2018 @01:26PM 70-Year-Old Former Volkswagen CEO Charged With Fraud Over Emissions Scandal
Tuesday April 24, 2018 @03:15PM Suspicious Event Hijacks Amazon Traffic For 2 hours, Steals Cryptocurrency
Wednesday April 18, 2018 @01:05PM A Florida Man Has been Accused of Making 97 Million Robocalls
Wednesday April 18, 2018 @03:28AM Cambridge Analytica Planned To Launch Its Own Cryptocurrency
Tuesday April 17, 2018 @04:53PM New York's Attorney General Is Investigating Bitcoin Exchanges
Tuesday April 03, 2018 @06:24PM Swedes Turn Against Cashlessness
Thursday March 29, 2018 @02:57PM 81% of Recent ICOs Were Scams, Research Finds
Wednesday March 14, 2018 @03:02PM Former Equifax CIO Charged With Insider Trading
Wednesday March 14, 2018 @01:05PM SEC Charges Theranos, CEO Elizabeth Holmes With 'Massive Fraud'
Saturday February 24, 2018 @11:02PM Nearly Half of 2017's Cryptocurrencies Have Already Failed
Thursday February 15, 2018 @03:34PM Coinbase is Erratically Overcharging Some Users and Emptying Their Bank Accounts
Tuesday February 13, 2018 @03:10PM LoopX Startup Pulls ICO Exit Scam and Disappears with $4.5 Million
Sunday February 04, 2018 @04:41PM Flat Earther Fails To Launch His Homemade Rocket -- Yet Again
Friday January 19, 2018 @12:55PM China's Smartphone Maker OnePlus Says Up To 40,000 Customers Were Affected by Credit Card Security Breach
Monday January 15, 2018 @04:05PM Canadian Charged With Running LeakedSource.com, Selling Stolen Info
Tuesday January 02, 2018 @03:01PM North Korean Hackers Hijack Computers To Mine Cryptocurrencies
Thursday December 21, 2017 @05:55PM US Drugmaker Raises Price of Vitamins By More Than 800%
Tuesday December 12, 2017 @04:37PM SEC Shuts Down Munchee ICO
Tuesday December 12, 2017 @04:37PM Paris Summit Finds New Money, Tech To Fight Climate Change
Friday December 08, 2017 @01:29AM Volkswagen Executive Sentenced To Maximum Prison Term For His Role In Dieselgate
Monday November 13, 2017 @07:25PM Uber Drivers In Lagos Are Using a Fake GPS App To Inflate Rider Fares
Thursday November 02, 2017 @04:02PM SEC Warns Famous Crypto-currency Backers
Tuesday October 24, 2017 @10:08AM WeWork Employees Caught Spying on Competition
Tuesday October 24, 2017 @04:42AM Computer Parts Site Newegg Is Being Sued For Allegedly Engaging In Massive Fraud
Friday October 20, 2017 @02:01PM Student Expelled After Using Hardware Keylogger to Hack School, Change Grades
Thursday October 19, 2017 @02:10PM Japanese Metal Manufacturer Faked Specifications To Hundreds of Companies
Monday October 09, 2017 @01:08PM Ask Slashdot: Is Deliberately Misleading People On the Internet Free Speech?
Tuesday October 03, 2017 @07:46PM IRS Awards $7 Million Fraud Prevention Contract To Equifax
Friday September 29, 2017 @10:28AM Chaos and Hackers Stalk Investors on Cryptocurrency Exchanges
Wednesday September 20, 2017 @12:45PM CEO Catches Stranger After Hours, Prompting Espionage Charges
Monday September 18, 2017 @03:45PM Meet the Font Detectives Who Ferret Out Fakery
Monday September 18, 2017 @01:48PM Flush With Cash: Swiss Toilets Mysteriously Stuffed With 500-Euro Bills
Thursday September 07, 2017 @02:22PM Amazon Was Tricked By a Fake Law Firm Into Removing a Popular Product, Costing the Seller $200,000
Thursday September 07, 2017 @12:34PM Amazon Tries To Snuff Out a Bunch of Kindle Publishing Scams
Thursday August 31, 2017 @04:43PM A Canadian University Gave $11 Million To a Scammer
Sunday August 27, 2017 @01:05PM Another Crowdfunded Startup Takes Customers' Money, Then Shuts Downs
Wednesday August 09, 2017 @02:51PM Prison Time For Manager Who Hacked Ex-Employer's FTP Server, Email Account
Wednesday August 09, 2017 @11:44AM Monsanto Was Its Own Ghostwriter For Some Safety Reviews
Friday August 04, 2017 @03:09PM 'Pharma Bro' Martin Shkreli Found Guilty of 3 of 8 Charges, Including Securities Fraud
Tuesday July 25, 2017 @10:39AM Amazon Jacked Up Prime Day Prices, Misleading Consumers, Says Vendor
Monday July 17, 2017 @12:25PM What to do when someone else is using your email address?
Tuesday July 11, 2017 @04:35PM Google Has Been Paying Academic Researchers Who Write Favorable Papers: Report
Monday July 10, 2017 @01:52PM Company Accused of Selling User Data Shuts Down After $104 Million Settlement
Friday July 07, 2017 @05:12AM Reality Bytes: A Highflying Tech Entrepreneur Crashes Back To Earth
Friday June 09, 2017 @11:00AM CEO of Defunct Silicon Valley Startup Indicted For Allegedly Tricking Employees Into Working For Free
Thursday June 08, 2017 @01:08PM China Arrests Apple Distributors Who Made Millions on iPhone Data
Tuesday May 30, 2017 @11:51AM As Computer Coding Classes Swell, So Does Cheating
Friday May 26, 2017 @06:11AM Disney Chief Bob Iger Doesn't Believe Movie Hack Threat Was Real
Tuesday May 23, 2017 @03:10PM Engineer At Boeing Admits Trying To Sell Space Secrets To Russians
Friday May 19, 2017 @03:02AM Rising Seas Set To Double Coastal Flooding By 2050, Says Study
Thursday May 11, 2017 @02:43PM Man To Pay $300,000 In Damages For Hacking Employer
Thursday April 27, 2017 @02:17PM Facebook and Google Were Victims of $100M Payment Scam
Tuesday April 25, 2017 @01:58PM IBM Watson Now Being Used To Catch Rogue Traders
Thursday April 13, 2017 @10:52AM Uber's 'Hell' Program Tracked and Targeted Lyft Drivers
Monday April 10, 2017 @03:08PM Amazon's Third-Party Sellers Hit By Hackers
Thursday April 06, 2017 @04:49PM Uber Contract 'Gibberish', Says MP Investigating Gig Economy
Wednesday April 05, 2017 @03:44PM Phony VPN Services Are Cashing In On America's War On Privacy
Wednesday March 29, 2017 @10:43AM One in Five Mobile Phones Shipped Abroad Are Phoney
Tuesday March 28, 2017 @01:23PM Facebook Copied Snapchat a Fourth Time, and Now All Its Apps Look the Same
Wednesday March 22, 2017 @04:38PM A Lithuanian Phisher Tricked Two Big US Tech Companies Into Wiring Him $100 Million
Thursday March 16, 2017 @04:10PM That Laptop-Bricking USB Stick Just Got Even More Dangerous
Tuesday March 14, 2017 @11:31AM Questions Linger After ISP Blocks TeamViewer Over Fraud Fears
Monday March 13, 2017 @08:37AM Typo In IP Address Led To an Innocent Father's Arrest For Paedophilia