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Scammers prefer to use the images, names and profiles of soldiers as this usually inspires confidence, trust and admiration in their victims. [28] Military public relations often post information on soldiers without mentioning their families or personal lives, so images are stolen from these websites by organized Internet crime gangs often ...
Conspiracy to launder money. Criminal penalty. 11 years. Ramon Olorunwa Abbas (born 11 October 1982), commonly known as Hushpuppi, Hush, or Ray Hushpuppi is a Dubai-based Nigerian Instagram influencer, self-acclaimed real estate mogul, and convicted felon. [ 1] He was sentenced in the United States to 11 years for conspiracy to launder money ...
The traditional romance scam has now moved into Internet dating sites, gaining a new name of catfishing. [5] The con actively cultivates a romantic relationship which often involves promises of marriage. However, after some time, it becomes evident that this Internet "sweetheart" is stuck in their home country or a third country, lacking the ...
Romance scams have seen a huge spike in the last year, culminating in nearly a billion dollars, according to the FBI. (Photo Illustration by Chukrut Budrul/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images ...
The con man investigated in Netflix’s new documentary “The Tinder Swindler” has been banned from the dating app. Shimon Hayut allegedly met women on Tinder before swindling them for millions ...
Advance-fee scam. An advance-fee scam is a form of fraud and is one of the most common types of confidence tricks. The scam typically involves promising the victim a significant share of a large sum of money, in return for a small up-front payment, which the fraudster claims will be used to obtain the large sum. [ 1][ 2] If a victim makes the ...
Haneefah Adam, visual artist. Jenevieve Aken (born 1989), photographer focused on self-portraits, portrait, and documentary photos. Peju Alatise (born 1975), artist, poet, writer. Ruby Onyinyechi Amanze (born 1982), Nigerian-born British-American drawings and works on paper, she lives in Brooklyn, New York.
419eater.com is a scam baiting website which focuses on advance-fee fraud. The name 419 comes from "419 fraud", another name for advance fee fraud, and itself derived from the relevant section of the Nigerian criminal code. The website founder, Michael Berry, goes by the alias Shiver Metimbers. As of 2013, the 419 Eater forum had over 55,000 ...