Man arrested for scamming Japanese woman out of $5.2 million in historic case

A Chinese national was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly impersonating a celebrity to scam a Japanese woman out of 809 million yen ($5.2 mil...

How a 20-year-old Singaporean man stole over $230 million in crypto

Malone Lam, a 20-year-old Singaporean man who was previously arrested by the FBI over a conspiracy to steal and launder money, appeared in c...

‘Blessing scams’ targeting Asian seniors are on the rise worldwide

A rising number of Chinese communities in the U.K. are falling victim to “good luck blessing” scams, which exploits cultural beliefs a...

Watch: Japanese police pull off kawaii dance moves in anti-scam video

A video of police officers in Japan’s Hiroshima Prefecture dancing to an anti-scam children’s song has gone viral on X, garnering 10.7 milli...

Hong Kong police bust love scam that duped victims out of $46 million using deepfakes

Hong Kong police dismantled a cross-border fraud syndicate that allegedly used deepfake technology to swindle over $46 million from victims ...

‘Blessing’ scams prey on elderly Asian women in Chicago

Between May and late August, at least five elderly Asian women in Chicago fell victim to “blessing” scams, losing tens of thousa...

Vancouver scammers steal nearly $6M from Chinese Canadian community

Vancouver authorities report that scammers targeted the city’s Chinese Canadian community members, stealing nearly $6 million since the begi...

Hawaii man scammed out of $275,000

Alan Sue, a 78-year-old Asian man, wired $275,000 to Dream Auto Collection in Hollywood, Florida, to buy a 2023 Mercedes Benz G63 with a rar...

Man arrested for telephone scam targeting Asians in Toronto

Zhi Yong Wu, a 57-year-old man from Toronto, was arrested and charged in connection with a telephone scam targeting members of the local Asi...

Korean woman loses $50,000 after falling for fake Elon Musk

A Korean fan of Elon Musk was duped into transferring thousands of dollars to a scammer who pretended to be the billionaire using artificial...

Senior Asian couple scammed out of millions, donations sought to save home

Eric Jiang, a 29-year-old entrepreneur, is seeking donations to help save his elderly parents’ home after they had fallen victim to an onlin...

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 ...