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A New Jersey man pled guilty in court on Friday to scamming $400,000 through a fake GoFundMe page, prosecutors tell CNN. In 2017, 29-year-old Mark D’Amico and his accomplice Katelyn McClure told social media users that McClure ran out of gas on Interstate 95 in Philadelphia. They claim that a homeless man, Johnny Bobbitt Jr., saw her and gave her his last […]
In addition to running up credit card debt and hearing covers of the same half-dozen songs for weeks on end, the holiday season also affords you the opportunity to be scammed. As always, be overly cautious and suspicious of everyone. This year, as was also the case in 2015 and 2018, the Better Business Bureau […]
The nationwide college admissions scandal is still ongoing. Lori Loughlin and her husband, Mossimo Giannulli, have pleaded not guilty to a third charge connected to the scam, CNN reports. The couple were among 11 parents charged in an indictment handed down by a grand jury in Boston last week, which alleges that they colluded with William […]
Shaggy is warning fans that someone is out there posing as him in an apparent effort to scam their way into some money. According to Shaggy, this scamming involves hitting up fans to tell them they somehow owe this faux Shaggy money. The Sting collaborator is now urging his followers to refrain from engaging with […]
Suckers in America lost an estimated $143 million last year by way of online scams of the would-be romantic variety. That’s a stat now receiving renewed interest in the wake of this month’s announcement from federal officials, per CNN, that 80 people had been charged in connection with a scam operation that successfully snatched millions. Citing […]
If you’re using Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant, or some other virtual subordinate to call a business for you, then you may be opening yourself up to scammers adapting to an ever-dependent-on-technology-world, at least according to a warning from the Better Business Bureau. As the BBB describes it, the con could play out if you refer […]
The 23-year-old founder of a lobby group known as Students for Trump is facing up to 20 years behind bars after he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud. As the New York Post reports, John Lambert pleaded guilty on Tuesday for pretending to be an attorney online and walking off with almost $50,000. “Are you […]
Former Stanford University head sailing coach John Vandemoer received one day in prison for his role in the national college admissions scandal. He will also pay a $10,000 fine and have two years of supervised release with six months of home detention with electronic monitoring. Vandemoer is the first person associated with the scam to receive his sentence. Vandemoer acknowledged accepting $610,000 in bribes to help […]
Evaldas Rimasauskas is probably going to prison for a long, log time. The 50-year-old Lithuania native admitted today that he scammed Facebook and Google out of over $100 million. Rimasauskas briefly pulled one over on the tech giants by posing as Taiwanese laptop manufacturer Quanta Computer. He incorporated a business in that name in Lithuania […]
The hysteria surrounding the disaster that was Fyre Festival was only heightened by the Netflix and Hulu documentaries released this year. Billy McFarland and Ja Rule scammed the masses into thinking they could go scuba-diving with Bella Hadid, which prompted tons of festival-goers to flock to the Bahamas in the hopes of experiencing Coachella 2.0. However, ole Billy now owes […]
