Singaporean woman loses $81,000 in life savings after answering fake durian tour ad

“This was my money saved over three decades. I deleted all the banking apps on my phone because I’m so scared” ...

Chinese woman arrested for having 16 jobs at the same time without ever working

A woman in China was recently arrested for running an alleged wage scam with her husband wherein she took up 16 simultaneous jobs to earn a ...

Chinese man accused of stealing $168 million through football betting app scam in India

A Chinese national fled to China after Indian authorities learned of a football betting app scam that swindled hundreds of millions of dolla...

Man in China arrested for attempting to extort restaurant by putting cockroach in his food

A man was arrested for trying to extort a restaurant in Beijing by spitting a cockroach onto his food. What happened: The incident reportedl...

Delhi cop suspended for taking ‘fine’ money from Korean YouTuber without receipt

An Indian traffic officer has been suspended after he was caught on camera giving a Korean national driving through Delhi a fine and taking ...

Man jailed for trying to steal unreleased music while posing as BTS member

A 28-year-old man has been sentenced to 14 months in prison for posing as a member of BTS to obtain details about the group’s activiti...

Man who conned 8 women out of over $400,000 gets stuck on window ledge while escaping

A man who cheated eight female victims out of hundreds of thousands of dollars got stuck on a window ledge while attempting to flee from one...

Chinese influencer exposed for posing as Russian soldier fighting in Ukraine

A Chinese influencer who talked about his experience fighting in Ukraine as a Russian soldier has been banned from Douyin after online sleut...

Georgia man accused of scamming elderly Koreans of over $300,000 via pyramid scheme

A man in Georgia has been accused of amassing over $300,000 by defrauding elderly Koreans via a pyramid scheme.  Targeting church members: O...

California man wanted for scamming senior out of $56K drives to Virginia to surrender

A California man accused of duping a Virginia senior out of $56,000 in a telephone scam turned himself in to police on Monday, according to ...

Scammer dupes man out of $600,000 in 10 minutes by posing as friend using AI

A man in China’s Fujian province lost a whopping 4.3 million yuan (approximately $600,000) in 10 minutes to a scammer who harnessed the powe...

Chinese crime group member arrested over Texas driver’s license scam that targeted thousands

A man who was reportedly a part of a Chinese organized crime group behind a driver’s license scam that targeted thousands of Texans has been...

Exiled Chinese billionaire with ties to Steve Bannon charged in $1 billion fraud scheme

Billionaire businessman Guo Wengui, a political dissident exiled from China, has been arrested and charged in connection with a conspiracy t...

Woman trying to adopt kitten loses $764,000 to crypto scam

A Hong Kong fashion executive lost 6 million Hong Kong dollars (approximately $764,000) in a crypto scam while trying to adopt a kitten onli...

SM, HYBE warn against fraudulent ‘concert’ for NCT Dream and SEVENTEEN

K-pop labels SM Entertainment and HYBE slammed a circulating fraudulent ad that falsely promised a K-pop Asian tour later this year with som...

Chinese woman cons friend out of $287,000 as revenge for her friend’s mom’s insulting comment

A woman in Shanghai admitted to posing as a renown TV news anchor and scamming her close female friend out of about 2 million yuan (approxi...

Oklahoma man busted for selling fake Pokémon cards nationwide

Police in Tulsa, Oklahoma, arrested local resident Michael McCoy on Tuesday for allegedly selling fake Pokémon cards across the country. V...

Japanese woman conned out of $30,000 by ‘astronaut’ who promised marriage but was ‘stuck’ in space

A 65-year-old woman in Japan’s Shiga prefecture was conned out of millions of yen by a fraudster who claimed to be a Russian astronaut work...

‘The Thai Frank Abagnale’: Chicken vendor fakes being a lawyer for years and wins several cases

Pornthep Kachenpak, a chicken vendor, successfully faked his license to practice law and won several cases in court. Kachenpak was arreste...

Married Chinese man cons 39 women out of $78,000 in romance scam using photos of attractive Korean men

A married Chinese man was sentenced to 11 years and six months in prison and fined 30,000 yuan (approximately $4,166) for scamming 39 women...

Why the 1,022 fake SpaceX employees from China could be part of an elaborate scam

A rumor that Elon Musk’s SpaceX employs over 1,000 Tsinghua University graduates became a trending topic on Chinese social media in July. ...

Japanese man behind $2.9 million global ‘romance scam’ arrested in Ghana

Hikaru Morikawa, a 58-year-old man accused of being the ringleader of a “romance scam” that swindled 65 victims out of nearly 400 million y...

Popular YouTuber flees Thailand after allegedly scamming over 6,000 victims out of $55 million

A popular Thai YouTuber has fled abroad after scamming thousands of investors out of two billion baht (approximately $55 million). The wom...

54-year-old Vietnamese American man scammed out of $139,000 by online lover

A 35-year-old woman in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, is being investigated for allegedly scamming a Vietnamese American man out of $139,000. Do...

Catfisher in China dated mother and son for 5 years — allegedly scammed them out of $20,000

A man in China is being sued for catfishing a mother and son out of 140,000 yuan (approximately $20,669) by pretending to date the two for ...

Married woman in China who dated 18 men at once arrested for scamming them out of $300,000

A married woman in China allegedly scammed around 20 men into funding her luxurious lifestyle, totaling more than 2 million yuan (approxima...

YouTuber gets scam ring in India arrested after hacking into their office’s CCTV cameras

A YouTuber known as Scambaiter allegedly hacked into the CCTV cameras of a scam ring office and posted a detailed video of the entire proce...

Woman loses $300,000 worth of bitcoin to person who posed as a Chinese architect on dating app Hinge

Tho Vu, 33, lost about $300,000 worth of bitcoin after being scammed by her Hinge match. The scammer, who went by the name Ze Zhao, earned...

Chinese student loses NFT worth $548,000 after clicking on a scam link

A fourth-year student at Shanghai’s Tongji University posted on Discord that he had lost a valuable NFT from the Doodles collective that wa...

Scammers steal $3.3 million by pulling rug from under ‘Squid Game’ cryptocurrency investors

Within days of launching, SQUID coin was shuttered and its creators made away with millions, suggesting it was a cryptocurrency scam known a...

Nas Academy denies profiting off beloved Filipino tattoo artist Whang-Od Oggay

Online learning platform Nas Academy has denied allegations that the course featuring a beloved Filipino tattoo artist is a scam. The accusa...

Indonesian Man Gets Scammed With Hand-Drawn Money While Selling Phone

A man in Indonesia realized it was too late when the person who bought his used phone handed him fake paper bills as payment. The transactio...

Woman Arrested After Making $100,000 Using Loophole in Amazon’s Return Policy

A 32-year-old woman from Tampa, Florida, was arrested for taking advantage of a loophole in Amazon’s return policy and earned more than $100...

Chinese Parents Pay $150,000 After Daughter is Used in ‘Virtual Kidnapping’ Scam in Australia

An 18-year-old Chinese student in Sydney fell victim to a virtual kidnapping scam that duped her family into paying thousands of dollars for...

‘Pastor’ in Little Saigon Pleads Guilty in $33 Million Investment Scam

The co-founder of the Church of the Healthy Self located in a strip mall in the Little Saigon area of Westminster, California has pleaded gu...

Southern California Women Arrested for $900,000 IRS Phone Scam

Two women in Southern California were arrested on Thursday for allegedly posing as Internal Revenue Service (IRS) employees. Authorities bel...