A woman from one of the world's tiniest towns thought she was being scammed when a letter telling her she had won a fortune on the lottery arrived in the post. Image shows Joanie from the Cowdrey community, in Colorado State, USA, undated photo. She won USD 250,000 (GBP 204,542)…
An American film producer has been conned out of GBP 2.5 million by a Nigerian fraudster who promised to invest the money, according to reports in Turkish media. Photo shows Lori Etta Taub, undated photo. She was allegedly scammed USD 3 million by a person living in Istanbul, Turkey. (@loritaub/CEN)…
Texas cops are on the hunt for a 'magician' who scammed Walmart cashiers out of over GBP 2,000 using a sleight-of-hand trick. The suspect visited Walmart in the city of Seguin in the US state of Texas on two occasions in January and February to carry out the scam. The…
A former Italian national volleyball star has been conned out of close to GBP 600,000 by a catfishing scam that went on for over a decade and convinced him that he was engaged to a Brazilian supermodel. Roberto Cazzaniga, 42, fell victim to the scam that led him to believe…
Story By: Alex Cope, Sub Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Central European News An Airbnb owner has fallen foul of a scam after letting the property out to a woman for a week who then copied the keys and allegedly illegally rented it out to a family for nine months. The bizarre incident occurred in the city of Vigo…