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Fraudsters are engaging in schemes involving fake students registered for community college in California. Up to 20 percent of traffic for online applications is identified as “malicious and bot-related,” leading to one professor to root out fraudulent bot activity throughout the state.

A man from Houston who scammed $1.6 million in coronavirus relief funds is going to prison due to fraud and money laundering, KHOU reported Monday.

Disgraced Silicon Valley star and Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes unexpectedly took the witness stand, a move that carries considerable risk, late on Friday at her criminal trial for fraud.

Two fugitives of justice were sentenced to federal prison in absentia on Monday “for fraudulently obtaining tens of millions of dollars” in coronavirus relief, the Justice Department announced.

The former head of a Muslim school in Sweden is accused of scamming millions of Swedish kronor from taxpayers and funnelling the cash to Somalia where it funded an Islamist group.

A company in Thailand has allegedly shipped up to tens of millions of used nitrile gloves — some “visibly soiled … even blood-stained” — to U.S. companies since at least February, according to a CNN investigation published Monday.

Huawei Chief Financial Officer and Chinese Communist Party (CCP) royalty Meng Wanzhou received a hero’s welcome when returning to company headquarters in Shenzhen, China, on Monday, a month after U.S. prosecutors made a deal to drop fraud and sanctions-evasion charges against her. 

A group of 18 former NBA players have been accused and charged of defrauding the league’s health and wellness benefit program out of roughly $4 million, according to a court indictment.

In a recent article, VICE News outlines how a group of investors lost millions after the NFT project “Evolved Apes” disappeared overnight.

Once praised for his pro-migrant welcoming policies, former Riace mayor Domenico “Mimmo” Lucano has been sentenced to 13 years and two months in prison on several charges including aiding illegal migration into Italy.

Texts between disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes and her ex-boyfriend and former Theranos COO Ramesh Balwani have been revealed as both face charges of wire fraud and conspiracy. The disgraced CEO boasted that she was the “best businessperson of the year,” just a year before the company fell apart amidst allegations of widespread fraud.

BBC News recently outlined how the rise and fall of fraudulent blood-testing company Theranos led to an ongoing culture of overhyping and underdelivering in Silicon Valley.

A judge dismissed nine people from the jury pool in the Elizabeth Holmes fraud trial because they had not received a coronavirus vaccine.

A Los Angeles couple convicted of helping steal $21 million in coronavirus relief funds is on the run after allegedly severing their ankle monitors, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

Apsana Begum, an MP for the left-wing Labour Party, cost taxpayers the equivalent of £63,928 by “deliberately and dishonestly” claiming social housing she was not entitled to, Snaresbrook Crown Court has been told.

Police in the Indian city of Mumbai recently shut down a group of fraudulent Chinese coronavirus vaccine clinics for distributing fake vaccines and counterfeit certificates to over 2,053 paying clients, the Times of India reported on Thursday.

The Court of Milan has convicted ten people who were part of a network that defrauded the Italian state of millions of euros while managing funds for migrant reception NGOs.

Swedish investigators are hunting a Dr Hammad Al-Saaid after he was alleged to be the ringleader in a false results corona testing scam.

French prosecutors have indicted a 29-year-old Algerian migrant on suspicion of raping a woman and attempting to force her into marriage.

Street gangs in the U.S. and foreign criminal syndicates may have stolen up to half of the unemployment benefits paid out during the pandemic, according to a report cited by Axios.

Police are investigating allegations that foreign-background residents were pressured to vote for certain candidates during the municipal election in Turku, Finland.

A New York resident was arrested for allegedly obtaining disability benefits by fraud once his wife shared photos of him lifting weights on her Instagram, New York Attorney General Letitia James said Thursday.

Eight young men from New York City allegedly defrauded the federal government out of $2 million in coronavirus relief funds and then flaunted the cash in pictures online, prosecutors said.

London’s Court of Appeal has overturned 39 people’s convictions made after the rollout of a flawed computer system at the Post Office.

An Egyptian national was sentenced to 212 years in federal prison Thursday for killing his two autistic children in a staged car accident so he could collect money off their life insurance policies.

The last widespread amnesty, signed by former President Ronald Reagan in 1986, invited a surge of immigration to the United States, allowed terrorists to stay in the country, and inflated fraud, according to a new study. 

A man who was arrested three times as a teen for allegedly impersonating a Chicago Police Officer was arrested and charged with the same crime Wednesday as an adult. 

London police are hunting a fraudster who conned a woman in her nineties into taking a fake vaccine injection and charging her £160 for it.

The State of California sent $42 million in unemployment benefits to inmates in prisons and jails in other states, part of $4 billion in similar losses to fraud, according to an internal investigation of the Employment Development Department.

Russian investigators on Tuesday launched a criminal investigation into Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny on charges of fraud.

Migrants in Mexico are reportedly awaiting President-elect Joe Biden’s administration as they hope he will end President Donald Trump’s anti-fraud initiative at the United States-Mexico border that has deterred illegal immigration.

An organised gang led by a Turkish national are said to have made millions of euros by disguising themselves as police officers and robbing the elderly in Vienna. The gang, which has been in operation since 2018, is said to

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is facing allegations of fraud and corruption linked to the multibillion-dollar Global Environment Facility, the Financial Times revealed Tuesday.

Two Romanian migrants have been jailed for posing as National Health Service (NHS) workers in order to defraud an 83-year-old widow in her home.

The legal process used by corporations to get green cards and work permits for their foreign workers is “highly susceptible to fraud,” says an investigation by the Department of Labor’s Inspector General (IG).

Two fraud investigations into President Donald Trump and his businesses in New York are “100% motivated by politics, publicity and rage,” Ivanka Trump tweeted Thursday.