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If there’s one thing the internet age has taught us, it’s that the boys are always watching and listening. Yet, it seems like one Tennessee rapper missed this lesson in common sense as he’s now facing fraud charges after boasting about scamming in his latest music video. Fontrell Antonio Baines was arrested for allegedly committing unemployment fraud, […]
Wanda Cooper-Jones, the mother of Ahmaud Arbery, has come out with a public condemnation of multiple people who she says are profiting off the death of her son. Obtained by TMZ, Cooper-Jones’ entire letter on that topic can be read here, which is what I would personally suggest. But we’ll also do our best to summarize […]
The Federal Trade Commission is warning people about scammers that are using the coronavirus pandemic to steal account information. The FTC released a report on Tuesday explaining that there are scammers posing as COVID-19 contact tracers. Contact tracers are being used by state health departments to get the names and phone numbers of infected patients. […]
A star from VH1’s Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta has been charged with federal bank fraud after allegedly scamming over $2 million from the coronavirus loan program. Maurice Fayne is said to have spent more than $1.5 million on jewelry and child support, according to the Hollywood Reporter. On April 15, the 37-year-old—who was in nine episodes of Love […]
As the global health crisis rages on, coronavirus scams have proliferated, with the latest involving ventilators. New York state paid $69.1 million to a man to produce ventilators, even though he had no medical supply expertise—and the ventilators ultimately never arrived, BuzzFeed News reports. On March 27, as the COVID-19 pandemic was underway, Donald Trump […]
An Oakland rapper has been accused of leading an fraud ring that stole millions of dollars from people in California, The Mercury News reports. 39-year-old Amir “Kafani” Rashad is the lead defendant in the federal fraud case. Per reports, Kafani worked with co-defendants, Susan Arreola-Martin, Christopher Pool, and Tyrone Jones, to orchestrate what is described as a “wide-ranging fraudulent […]
A group of men posing as rap industry bigwigs finessed more than $100,000 from luxury hotels in Georgia, according to the Associated Press. The men, who were driving a Rolls Royce Phantom rented from A-National Limousine, pulled up to the hotels and told employees they were with Roc Nation and Wu-Tang Clan, the criminal complaint […]
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 […]
