Four Canadian travelers were yanked out of the check-in lineup at the Huatulco, Oaxaca, airport this week and held for several hours until they paid hundreds of...
This past week, users in the United States have been bombarded by an email spam campaign that pushed a double-whammy of a sextortion attempt combined with a pos...
Accusations of misconduct have been levelled against the taxi industry in a remote Northern Territory town, including credit cards being "held hostage" and a driver selling a pack of cigarettes to a passenger for $75....
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SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- Three men made more than $14,000 in a "terrifying and elaborate" Syracuse-based phone scam which tricked victims into thinking their loved one...
Scammers pretending to represent the Australian Taxation Office have stolen more than $800,000 in the past month after frightening people into handing over thei...
A Chicago woman is suing Hilton Worldwide for US$100 million saying that she was filmed naked in the shower by a hidden camera while a hotel guest – in footage uploaded with her name onto multiple porn sites....
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In two separate investigations, police believe Michael Malentin used the Toronto-based site, known to connect people who are married or in relationships, to mee...
An unemployed Hongkonger raped, robbed, and extorted almost HK$300,000 (US$38,400) from a woman by pretending to be a wealthy American businessman who lost his ...
Saying she had never seen a case quite like it, a US federal judge Monday sentenced a South Florida man to three years in prison for cross-dressing as a woman and taping himself having sex with at least 80 unsuspecting men to produce internet porn vi...
Two officers of the Fuerza Pública (National Police) were arrested on Thursday (Nov. 29) after following up on a complaint by two Canadian tourists who were cha...
Three Emirati men were charged at the Dubai Court of First Instance on Monday for allegedly posing as cops and kidnapping three Indian traders to a desert locat...
Alpacas frolic in clover-filled paddocks. Teenagers tend to rescued donkeys and abandoned piglets. Well-fed barn cats laze around on rough-hewed benches. The Rickety Ranch, the New Hampshire Union-Leader wrote in 2014, “is a place where animals and h...
Five inmates in the Carolinas extorted more than half a million dollars from military personnel throughout the country, using illegal cellphones to pose as wome...
Almost half of all business IT directors would hand over money to cyber hackers in order to avoid the costly fines that come with falling foul of the General Da...
The Department of State Security (DSS) on Monday rescued an American citizen, Tawanda Lynn Jackson who was held hostage by one Mathew Adedoyin, her acquaintance whom she had met on social media. Parading the prime suspect and his accomplice at the DS...
Eight federal police were among nine officers arrested Friday in Chihuahua on suspicion of extortion....
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Police in Cambodia have arrested more than 200 Chinese citizens accused of defrauding people in China over the internet. Gen....
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University of California at Berkeley police are warning the campus community about Internet-based photo and video privacy extortion scams....
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - An Israeli-American man was sentenced to 10 years in prison in Israel on Thursday for making about 2,000 hoax bomb threats that forced eva...
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NEW MINAS, NS - After investigating several complaints, the RCMP is warning the public about a social media extortion scam that is targeting girls in Kings County. The Kings District RCMP responded to a complaint involving multiple social media accou...
Two officers attached to Thonglor police station in Bangkok have been suspended from service for allegedly extorting Bt20,000 and US$500 in cash from a Hong Kon...
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